Principal Materials Artist: Elevate PBR & Surfaces

Respawn Entertainment; West Chatsworth (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Principal Materials Artist for the Apex Legends project to establish and maintain a core material library and surfacing workflows. You will lead surfacing strategy, collaborate across rendering, technical art, and craft, and contribute to tools and pipelines with a focus on high performance and cross-platform targets.

The ideal candidate has deep PBR knowledge, expert Substance Painter/Designer skills, and proven experience building shared material libraries at

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional game development experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating a wide range of high quality materials and a mastery of PBR.
• Expert level knowledge of Substance Painter and Designer.
• Direct production experience building shared material libraries that have been brought to market at a AAA scale and quality.
• Experience in live service titles, seasonal content, cosmetics, or character customization systems is a plus.
• Experience collaborating with technical disciplines on standing up new pipelines.
• Capability to author materials or shaders as proof of concept or visual targets is a plus.
• Comfortable working with proprietary technology that ships on a wide range of platforms with performance as a top priority.
• Strong ability to clearly communicate, both verbally and in writing, create documentation, training materials, or mentoring junior artists.

Responsibilities

• Co-develop new surfacing strategies and pipelines in collaboration with rendering, technical art, and craft experts.
• Build, curate, and maintain a high quality shared material library.
• Help design material systems or layered materials with an understanding of complex surface interactions.
• Contribute to tools and pipelines leveraging subject matter expertise in Substance Painter/Designer, Houdini Copernicus, or other related DCC tools.
• Be a champion for technology that meets high performance expectations and technical constraints.
• Help test and validate new rendering and lighting features.
• Build partnerships and collaborative efforts between multiple disciplines to achieve successful solutions.

Skills

12+ years game development

PBR materials mastery

Substance Painter/Designer expert

Shader authoring

Pipeline collaboration

Documentation/mentoring

Tools

Substance Painter

Substance Designer

Houdini

Copernicus

Job description

Respawn Entertainment is seeking a Principal Materials Artist for the Apex Legends project to establish and maintain a core material library and surfacing workflows. You will lead surfacing strategy, collaborate across rendering, technical art, and craft, and contribute to tools and pipelines with a focus on high performance and cross-platform targets.

The ideal candidate has deep PBR knowledge, expert Substance Painter/Designer skills, and proven experience building shared material libraries at