SENIOR VFX TECHNICAL ARTIST (ACTIVISION / ELSEWHERE ENTERTAINMENT)

🕹 New IP
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote (Europe) / 👔 Office Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪 / Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱

🦄 Description
Elsewhere Entertainment is looking for a Senior VFX Technical Artist to join the development of a new IP. You will work across the Technical Art department, solving complex challenges in VFX tools, technologies, workflows, and next-generation rendering. The role is on-site hybrid in Malmö or Warsaw, with remote work possible for highly experienced candidates within Europe.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Drive and define next-generation visual effects including particles, custom post effects, destruction, hair/fur and baked effects
• Collaborate with artists and engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable and performant VFX solutions
• Maintain technical asset production workflows for consistency, scalability and reusability
• Work closely with engineers and artists to leverage next-gen rendering pipeline features

📚 Required Skills
• 4+ years of experience as a Technical Artist
• Advanced shader development expertise (HLSL, GLSL or similar)
• Experience with graph-based particle and shader systems (Unreal, Unity or proprietary engines)
• Strong understanding of rendering pipelines, lighting, HDR and post-processing
• Experience profiling and optimizing shaders and rendering performance
• Ability to communicate clearly and bridge art and engineering

👍 Nice to Have
• AAA experience with high-fidelity visuals
• Knowledge of ray tracing, screen-space effects, compute shaders, tessellation
• Leadership or managerial experience
• Sharing materials/shaders across engines or DCCs
• Machine learning experience
• Knowledge of OpenUSD or MaterialX
• Experience with consoles and related tools

🍪 What we offer
• Work on a new IP within Activision
• Inclusive, creative and highly skilled team
• Opportunity to influence next-generation visuals
• Hybrid roles in Sweden/Poland or remote within Europe for experienced candidates

🌐 Vacancy link

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