Senior Materials Level Artist (AAA Games)

Location: Fully remote from anywhere in Canada; core hours aligned with PST and the team located in California.

Salary: $46.77–$70.14 CAD per hour.

Company

hirify.global Studios Visual Arts provides content, development, and services for hirify.global Studios and supports AAA game projects under Sony Interactive Entertainment.

What you will do

• Create and refine realistic PBR materials for in-game and cinematic levels while maintaining visual consistency and quality standards.
• Build environments and levels through terrain and level-specific modeling, organic and hard-surface world construction, asset placement, material blending, and ground-to-asset transitions.
• Develop environmental storytelling through age, wear, erosion, and historical narrative.
• Handle environment art from blockout and prototyping through custom asset creation and final shippable-quality art.
• Collaborate with Art Directors, Leads, and Technical Artists, implement feedback, and help define the game's visual direction.
• Balance visual quality with performance constraints, solve production challenges, estimate scope, manage workload, and deliver on schedule.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a materials or world-building artist in the video game industry, including 2 shipped AAA titles.
• Proficiency with Autodesk Maya and traditional modeling pipelines, including UV unwrapping for texturing meshes and lightmaps.
• A portfolio demonstrating materials created with both procedural and traditional techniques.
• Strong understanding of PBR material workflows, standards, and surface/light interactions.
• Strong understanding of materials usage within a game-development world-building pipeline.
• Proficiency in applying surface details and controlling shader features for a wide variety of material types.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and traditional texture-baking techniques.
• Experience optimizing games for performance and memory.
• Advanced understanding of game and cinematic art asset creation, plus the ability to learn new game engines and tools rapidly.
• Ability to work core hours aligned with PST and the team located in California.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Substance Designer workflows.
• Shader authoring experience.
• Houdini experience.
• Experience working with external outsource vendors.
• 2D graphics experience.
• Conceptual level layout experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Six-month contract role with fully remote work from anywhere in Canada.
• Opportunity to contribute to an upcoming AAA project with hirify.global Studios Visual Arts.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits are available.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment with equal-opportunity and fair-chance employment practices.

Hiring process

• Submit a portfolio or demo reel.
• Complete a phone screen and potentially an art test.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage.