Senior Texture Artist (Dead by Daylight)

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global develops interactive entertainment and the horror game Dead by Daylight.

What you will do

• Create high-quality textures and materials for environments in Dead by Daylight.
• Collaborate with Environment Artists to select effective textures, materials, and techniques for each environment.
• Translate the artistic vision into realistic, visually consistent architectural spaces and assets.
• Calibrate, refine, and polish textures and materials to meet visual and technical standards.
• Improve texture workflows and best practices while sharing techniques and solutions with other artists.
• Shape and organize the environment texture pipeline with the Technical Art Director, Art Lead, and Lighting Artist.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a Texture Artist, including shipped video game environment assets.
• Experience with Unreal Engine and Substance Designer, plus a strong understanding of PBR and its impact on lighting.
• Strong knowledge of architectural materials, surface definition, composition, color, value, scale, detail, and visual consistency.
• Understanding of game art production pipelines, optimization, memory budgets, mipmaps, texture packing, tileable textures, texel density, resolution, and asset integration in Unreal Engine.
• Ability to create trimsheet materials using basic 3D skills for baking.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating realistic environment, architectural, and material work.

Nice to have

• Ability to create and modify Unreal materials using Shader Graph, Material Functions, and layering.
• Knowledge of Photoshop and Substance Painter.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment.
• Hybrid work arrangement in Montreal.
• Diverse and creative environment that values people from all backgrounds.