Principal 3D Generalist (Unity)

Location: San Francisco, CA; on-site five days per week

Salary: $75,000–$120,000 per year, plus potential bonuses, incentives, and program-specific awards.

Company

hirify.global is an entertainment studio developing casual puzzle and story-driven mobile games, including Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Cookie Jam, and Panda Pop.

What you will do

• Create efficient 3D characters, props, and environments for a new mobile game.
• Light real-time and pre-baked environment scenes.
• Create shaders in Unity and Maya, and occasionally rig and skin props and characters.
• Identify technical issues in concepts and establish art pipelines for new features and asset types.
• Document art practices and troubleshoot visual issues in Maya and Unity.
• Collaborate daily with the 3D Art Director, Technical Art, Engineering, and other game disciplines.

Requirements

• 5+ years of 3D game development experience, including at least two games taken from conception to completion; one must be a mobile game.
• Experience with modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, skinning, and shader development.
• Complete mastery of Maya and Adobe Creative Suite, plus excellent Unity knowledge.
• Experience with ZBrush and familiarity with Substance Painter and Substance Designer.
• Strong environment and character art skills, including anatomy, composition, color, value, form, and real-time lighting and light baking.
• Ability to work on-site five days per week; an online portfolio, website, or PDF of recent artwork is required with the application.

Nice to have

• Strong 2D concept and illustration skills.
• Maya scripting experience with MEL or Python.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited vacation, paid sick days, kin care, and holidays.
• Company-covered medical insurance and sponsored dental and vision plans.
• Life insurance, 401(k), flexible spending accounts, and wellness programs.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for eligible full-time positions.
• Company events, happy hours, employee resource groups, cultural events, training, and speaker series.