Real-time VFX Artist — Niagara/Unity

Impleo; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Impleo is seeking a skilled VFX Artist to join our team of game-makers. Create real-time VFX across combat, environments, weather, and UI, and ensure they look great in the target engine and on various platforms.

Collaborate with art, design, animation, and engineering to implement effects from concept to polish. Bring strong knowledge of PBR, shaders, lighting, and asset pipelines, and adapt visuals to gameplay, camera distance, and diverse art styles.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience with a published game or engine portfolio.
• Experience with Niagara or Unity VFX Graph.
• Ability to create effects from concept to in-engine integration.
• Strong knowledge of real-time rendering, PBR, and shaders.
• Proficiency in creating VFX textures, meshes, and simple animations.
• Strong artistic fundamentals including composition, form, silhouette, color, light, timing, anticipation, impact, readability, and visual hierarchy.
• Ability to adapt effects to gameplay, camera distance, environment, lighting, and various art styles.
• Practical optimization and profiling knowledge (overdraw, shader complexity, particle count, draw calls, memory, LODs).
• Understanding of production pipelines, version control, asset structure, and task tracking.
• English level B1+.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality real-time VFX in different art styles for combat, environments, destruction, weather, and UI.
• Integrate, test, profile, and optimize effects for the target engine and platform.
• Collaborate with art, design, animation, and engineering teams to solve creative and technical issues.

Skills

3+ years experience

Niagara

Unity VFX Graph

In-engine integration

real-time rendering

PBR and shaders

textures and meshes

artistic fundamentals

adapt to gameplay

production pipelines

English level B1+

Tools

Niagara

Unity VFX Graph

3D texturing software

Job description

Impleo is seeking a skilled VFX Artist to join our team of game-makers. Create real-time VFX across combat, environments, weather, and UI, and ensure they look great in the target engine and on various platforms.

Collaborate with art, design, animation, and engineering to implement effects from concept to polish. Bring strong knowledge of PBR, shaders, lighting, and asset pipelines, and adapt visuals to gameplay, camera distance, and diverse art styles.