VFX Artist (Realism / Medieval Strategy)

TL;DR

VFX Artist (Realism / Medieval Strategy): Building high-quality, performance-friendly real-time effects for a realistic medieval strategy title with an accent on selling weight, impact, materials, and atmosphere. Focus on delivering convincing, grounded effects for medieval gameplay, including combat VFX, ranged VFX, ground/material reactions, fire/smoke/destruction, and world atmosphere.

Location: Remote (Global)

Company

hirify.global Games is developing a realistic / hyper-realistic medieval strategy title.

What you will do

• Build high-quality, performance-friendly real-time effects.
• Work closely with Art Direction, Tech Art, Design, and Engineering.
• Deliver convincing, grounded effects for medieval gameplay (combat, ranged, ground/material reactions, fire/smoke/destruction).
• Optionally contribute to world atmosphere effects.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of UE5 Material Editor, including Material Instances and parameterization for runtime control.
• Understanding of translucency pitfalls: sorting, overdraw, refraction cost, scene depth usage.
• Proven pipeline for creating flipbooks (smoke/fire/dust) and preparing them for UE.
• Familiarity with simulation sources and baking to real-time.
• Understanding of timing principles.
• Experience working with profiling tools and practical optimization.

Nice to have

• Destruction workflow knowledge: Houdini fracture concepts, debris staging, secondary dust layers.
• Familiarity with UE5 rendering features relevant to VFX (Lumen considerations for emissive VFX, Nanite awareness).
• Experience building impact decals / footprint systems / wetness accumulation (material-driven).
• Experience collaborating with Tech Art on shared libraries (modules, templates, parameter standards).

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salaries are regularly reviewed based on professional growth.
• Flexible working hours.
• Remote working.
• 18 working days of paid time off.
• 5 paid sick leaves (without doctor's notes).
• Compensation for external conferences/workshops/events.
• Full employment.
• Fun corporate events.