Technical VFX Artist

Chai Time; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Chai Time Games is seeking a Technical VFX Artist to build combat, ability, and environmental effects and shaders directly in Unity for Project Trinity, a fast, top-down co-op RPG.

The role emphasizes stylized, painterly visuals inspired by Hades and Windblown, tight timing for snappy combat, and clarity in multiplayer battles with up to 4 players and 20 enemies.

Qualifications

• Experience authoring stylized real-time VFX in Unity using VFX Graph, Particle System, or Shuriken.
• Strong sense of timing and impact frames for snappy top-down combat.
• Ability to keep visual clarity in co-op play with multiple players and enemies.
• Profiling and optimizing shaders to stay within budget for 4 players and 20 enemies.

Responsibilities

• Author effects for weapon combos, Class Abilities, and Super Abilities across playable heroes—the projectile trails, area impacts, ground quakes, and ability telegraphs.
• Create effects for enemy telegraphs, boss attacks, glowing enemy states, shrine buffs, and co-op puzzle conduits.
• Build and maintain custom shaders in Unity for combat readability, status-effect feedback, interactable highlights, and camera obstruction punch-through.
• In-Engine Integration: assemble particle systems, meshes, trails, materials, and prefabs that hook into gameplay timings and multiplayer state.

Skills

Stylized VFX

Shader authoring

Unity

Real-time performance

Tools

Unity Engine

VFX Graph

Shader Graph

HLSL

Job description

We are looking for a Technical VFX Artist to build our combat, ability, and environmental effects and shaders directly in Unity. Project Trinity is a fast, top-down co-op action RPG where up to 4 players and 20 enemies can share the screen - so every effect has to feel punchy while keeping the battlefield readable.

Our visual target is stylized and painterly / hand-painted, taking readability cues from Hades and Windblown.

What You Will Do

• Combat & Class Ability VFX: Author effects for weapon combos, Class Abilities, and Super Abilities across our playable heroes - projectile trails, area impacts, ground quakes, and ability telegraphs.
• Boss, Enemy & Puzzle VFX: Create effects for enemy telegraphs, boss attacks, glowing enemy states, shrine buffs, and co-op puzzle conduits.
• Custom Shaders: Build and maintain custom shaders in Unity for combat readability, status-effect feedback, interactable highlights, and foreground circular punch-through when the camera view of a player is obstructed.
• In-Engine Integration: Work directly in Unity to assemble particle systems, meshes, trails, materials, and prefabs that hook cleanly into gameplay timings and multiplayer state.

What We Are Looking For

• Proven experience authoring stylized real-time VFX and custom shaders in Unity (VFX Graph, Particle System / Shuriken, Shader Graph, and/or HLSL).
• Strong sense of timing, anticipation, impact frames, and dissipation for snappy top-down combat.
• Discipline around co-op visual clarity: making player attacks, teammate buffs, and enemy danger zones immediately distinguishable without cluttering the screen.
• Comfort profiling and keeping overdraw and shader cost within budget for up to 4 players and 20 active enemies.