Environment Artist / Generalist (Unreal Engine)

Location: Remote, Mexico City, Mexico; full-time employment benefits are available only to applicants located in Mexico

Salary: MXN 32,000–35,000 gross per month

Company

hirify.global is a North American outsourcing art studio supporting GameSim, a Keywords Studio game development partner working on PC and console titles.

What you will do

• Create 3D environment art, props, modular assets, materials, set dressing, and world-building content across realistic and stylized projects.
• Model, unwrap, bake, texture, optimize, and integrate assets and environments in Unreal Engine.
• Assemble scenes with attention to composition, readability, performance, technical requirements, and visual consistency.
• Review work from internal artists, partner studios, and vendors, providing clear and actionable feedback.
• Translate client and project direction into tasks, priorities, acceptance criteria, quality bars, and workflow documentation.
• Collaborate with art directors, leads, producers, technical artists, designers, engineers, and artists across studios and time zones.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience as a 3D Environment Artist, Generalist, World Artist, or similar in games or real-time production.
• At least one shipped game or comparable real-time interactive project, plus a portfolio demonstrating environment art, world building, props, materials, or scene assembly.
• Professional experience with Unreal Engine and a strong understanding of modeling, UVs, baking, texturing, materials, optimization, and engine implementation.
• Proficiency with production tools such as Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, and Photoshop.
• Understanding of real-time performance factors including LODs, draw calls, texel density, texture memory, collision, lightmaps, shaders, scene organization, and asset budgets.
• English proficiency at B2 or higher is required, and the CV must be submitted in English.

Nice to have

• Mentoring, art reviews, lead-level support, or experience defining style guides, quality bars, and review standards.
• Experience with outsourcing, co-development, partner studios, external vendors, or client-facing reviews.
• Experience with Perforce, Jira, Miro, Confluence, Houdini, Blueprint, Python, scripting, or procedural workflows.
• Experience with optimization passes, performance profiling, memory budgets, platform constraints, or multiple real-time engines.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work in a full-time position.
• Career growth opportunities and the possibility to develop toward broader lead responsibilities.
• Work on major game titles with an international game production team.
• Applicants located in Mexico receive statutory benefits including social security, 12 days of annual leave, a 30-day Christmas bonus, and a 25% vacation premium.
• After three months, Mexico-based employees receive major and minor medical insurance, a savings fund, and MXN 1,244.88 in grocery vouchers.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume and portfolio link; the resume must be in English.
• An art test may be required.