Technical Artist (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Technical Artist (Gamedev): Integrating art and UI into the Unity engine, bringing it to life with dynamic animations and VFX with an accent on adaptive and responsive UI best practices. Focus on delivering high-quality motion graphics for exciting game features and captivating live-ops events.

Location: Austin, Texas

Company

hirify.global is a leading developer and publisher of digital games on mobile and web platforms.

What you will do

• Implement game feature and live-ops UX/UI art and design into the Unity engine.
• Implement UI components into Unity, ensuring optimal UX adaptive/responsive layouts in both landscape and portrait layouts.
• Create Unity animations for both UI elements and 2D characters.
• Create vfx using Unity’s native Shuriken particle system.
• Communicate between engineers, designers and non-technical artists to understand game feature requirements and bring game events to life.
• Help manage asset bundles, optimizing for size, compression, texture atlasing and overall file organization.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience using Unity for mobile game development.
• Strong understanding of Unity’s UI system, animation controllers, particle system, shaders and materials, with experience optimizing and troubleshooting.
• Excellent 2D & 3D UI, character and VFX animation experience.
• Proficient in Photoshop.
• Working knowledge of production tools (Jira, Confluence, Stash/Git, Jenkins).
• Working knowledge of asset management and version systems.

Nice to have

• Experience in C# or scripting languages is a plus.
• Experience in Blender is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salaries and annual bonuses alongside matching 401k and other competitive benefits.
• Fully stocked kitchen.
• Fully stocked game room featuring current generation consoles and titles, and arcade cabinets.