Senior Procedural Artist (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Senior Procedural Artist (Gamedev): Designing and developing high-quality procedural tools and systems in Houdini for asset generation and environment workflows with an accent on creating scalable procedural setups for environments, characters, props, terrain elements, modular kits, or systemic content. Focus on maintaining strong artistic direction and visual quality while improving existing pipelines through automation and procedural solutions.

Location: Fully remote available/Hybrid

Company

Sports Interactive (SI), a wholly owned subsidiary of hirify.global Europe, is the gaming studio behind Football Manager.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality procedural tools and systems in Houdini for asset generation and environment workflows.
• Create scalable procedural setups for environments, characters, props, terrain elements, modular kits, or systemic content.
• Build artist-friendly HDAs with clean controls and clear documentation.
• Collaborate with the Head of Art and Animation to ensure procedural systems maintain strong visual identity and consistency.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing pipelines through automation and procedural solutions.
• Mentor mid-level and junior artists in procedural workflows and best practices.

Requirements

• Expert-level knowledge of Houdini (SOPs, VEX-based workflows, procedural modelling, instancing, scattering, attribute workflows, optimization).
• Strong understanding of procedural thinking and non-destructive workflows.
• Experience building production-ready HDAs for use in a game dev pipeline.
• Excellent artistic eye - composition, scale, silhouette, material breakup, environmental storytelling.
• Strong understanding of real-time engine constraints (polycount, draw calls, LODs, memory considerations).
• Experience working collaboratively in a cross-discipline game development team.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating Houdini workflows into Unity pipelines.
• Familiarity with Houdini Engine for Unity.
• Experience with terrain generation, world-building systems, or large-scale environment production.

Culture & Benefits

• Private Healthcare and Dental Cover.
• Contributory Pension Scheme (employer contributions up to 7% of annual salary).
• Free access to games released under the hirify.global Europe umbrella.
• Regular events and experiences in collaboration with partnered football clubs.
• Multiple clubs and societies to join.
• Personalised football shirt upon passing probation.