Senior Environment Artist Texture

Location: United States, Santa Monica, CA; hybrid / onsite. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Salary: $69.09–$86.35 USD per hour.

Company

Naughty Dog is a game development studio known for narrative-driven, technically ambitious AAA titles, including The Last of Us series, and is currently working on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

What you will do

• Create and apply materials across varied subject matter.
• Build, texture, and maintain game environments while keeping levels within frame-rate, memory, and design specifications.
• Define complex visual looks for challenging levels with limited concept art and direction.
• Act as a point of contact for achieving design and art-direction goals in game art production.
• Collaborate with other departments to propose and implement solutions that improve the game.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience modeling high-quality environments, likely including at least one shipped AAA title.
• Expert understanding of environment creation in AAA game development and strong art sensibilities for color, composition, and scale.
• Proficiency in sculpting and painting surface details, controlling shader features for varied material types, and constructing shaders with a material editor for physically based game environments.
• Ability to create efficient UV layouts, bake textures from high-resolution meshes, and build tiling and trim texture sets.
• Experience managing texture memory and shader performance.
• Proficiency with Maya, Substance, ZBrush, or equivalent software.
• Self-motivated, proactive, flexible, and able to execute a level's vision to completion while meeting schedules and communicating evolving project needs.
• Collaborative team player who actively seeks and gives feedback, shares information and assets, and remains open to direction and iteration.

Culture & Benefits

• Temporary engagement through staffing partner Yoh Enterprise Solutions.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision offerings.
• Inclusive environment that values diverse cultural and life experiences.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage for new employees.

Hiring process

• Submit a portfolio or demo reel; an art test may also be required.
• The process includes a phone screen.