As the games division of Bad Robot Productions (Lost, Cloverfield, Westworld, Star Wars, Star Trek), we at Bad Robot Games are on a mission to continually reinvent how stories are played.
We are a remote-first games company represented by a diverse team, which empowers us to make the kinds of games in which all players can see themselves. Working closely with our colleagues at Bad Robot Productions, our projects unite our extensive network of games, TV, and film industry talent to create original IPs, expansive worlds and tell new stories across all media platforms which are as fun to watch as they are to play.
Bad Robot Games is looking for a Principal Tech Artist that has a proven history in the games industry developing groundbreaking tech for AAA games. You will work closely with art, engineering and gameplay to create technical pipelines, shaders, rendering features, VFX, and procedural tools to empower games creation at BRG.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define teamwide best practices for art content creation
- Be the primary driver and creator for content creation tools to help speed up art production
- Help define and develop industry leading visual effects, in collaboration with our VFX lead and Art Director
- Be the point of contact for complex shader development
- Innovate on art creation processes to deliver high quality results at scale
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of experience as a technical artist in AAA game development
- Shipped at least 1 AAA title as Principle Tech Artist or Tech Art Director
- In depth knowledge of complex real time shaders
- Experience in designing procedural systems for content creation, either in engine of middleware
- Thorough understanding of AAA VFX pipelines
- Strong Unreal experience, including shader and blueprint creation
BONUSES
- Coding skills in Python, or C++
- Complex shader creation outside of node based systems
- Expertise with Houdini in a production environment