Senior VFX Artist – Art Center (Unreal Engine/Niagara)

Location: Remote within the United States, limited to Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, New Jersey, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming; the Los Angeles area is strongly preferred.

Salary: $115,000–$160,000 annually

Company

Snail Games USA develops and publishes online games and digital entertainment.

What you will do

• Define and elevate VFX standards across multiple Unreal Engine projects.
• Design and build real-time visual effects from concept through final implementation.
• Establish scalable Niagara systems, reusable workflows, benchmarks, documentation, and best practices.
• Monitor cross-project VFX quality and identify artistic, technical, performance, and workflow risks.
• Optimize particle counts, shader complexity, overdraw, and PC and console performance budgets.
• Guide distributed teams, collaborate with Design, Animation, Lighting, Engineering, and Technical Art, and deliver critical hands-on work during high-risk moments.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering high-quality real-time VFX in Unreal Engine, preferably UE4 or UE5.
• Strong expertise in Niagara systems and real-time shader and material workflows.
• Deep understanding of gameplay readability, combat feedback, visual hierarchy, and performance optimization for PC and console.
• Ability to diagnose workflow inefficiencies, implement improvements, work independently, and propose actionable solutions in ambiguous environments.
• Ability to provide clear, direct feedback across disciplines and collaborate with distributed teams.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience across realistic, stylized, fantasy, and sci-fi visual styles.
• Pipeline collaboration with Technical Art and Engineering.
• Experience mentoring or elevating other VFX artists.
• Experience supporting both game and cinematic VFX workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Strong focus on work-life balance.
• Paid company holidays, vacation, and separate sick leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Projects may include mature, violent, sexual, graphic, or otherwise sensitive content.