SENIOR VFX ARTIST (CD PROJEKT RED)

🕹 The Witcher 4
🧠 Senior
💰 Negotiable
⏰ Full-time
🌎 Remote (Europe) / 👔 Office Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱

🦄 Description
CD PROJEKT RED is looking for an experienced Senior VFX Artist to join the team working on The Witcher 4, the first game in a brand-new saga. The role combines artistic vision with strong technical expertise, focusing on creating high-quality real-time effects and developing creative and technical solutions to enhance storytelling and immersion.

🚀 Responsibilities
• Create high-quality real-time visual effects for gameplay, environments and cinematics
• Collaborate with artists, designers and engineers to build stunning and performant VFX
• Develop creative and technical solutions that enhance storytelling
• Explore new tools, workflows and techniques for real-time VFX
• Ensure VFX assets meet artistic standards and technical constraints
• Work with leads and producers to estimate and plan work

📚 Required Skills
• Proven game development experience with Unreal Engine
• Strong artistic sensibility and eye for detail, composition and motion
• Advanced skills with VFX tools and pipelines, including Niagara
• Ability to create complex materials in Unreal Engine
• Solid understanding of real-time rendering, lighting, shaders and PBR
• Expertise in real-time simulations and optimization
• Proactive mindset and openness to feedback
• Experience delivering impactful, self-directed work
• Clear and empathetic communication skills
• Portfolio showcasing excellence in VFX for games
• Proficient English

👍 Nice to Have
• Experience with procedural content creation in Houdini
• Experience with Blueprint scripting
• Experience applying VFX in cinematic pipelines

🍪 What we offer
• Hybrid or full-time office work in Warsaw, with remote options within Europe
• Full relocation support including flight, housing, pet relocation and belongings shipping
• Assistance with legal, residential and tax matters
• Polish lessons for employees and partners
• Comprehensive insurance and pension plans
• Annual medical budget for employees working outside Poland
• Psychological and psychiatric care, well-being webinars
• Paid leave (20–26 days) and paid sick leave
• Gym membership reimbursement and onsite gym access
• Menstrual leave
• Childcare support and family-focused benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Cafeteria platform with vouchers and reimbursements
• Training, lectures, internal and external courses
• Gifts, swag and social events
• Dog-friendly office
• Healthy canteen meals
• International work environment
• Sustainable campus with electric chargers, green areas and bike facilities

🌐 Vacancy link

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