Technical Artist
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Job Description
Gaming:
Welcome to the world of landbased gaming. At Light & Wonder its all about the games and our Gaming team builds cuttingedge technology products and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.
Position Summary
Core Technical Artist
We are seeking a Technical Artist to create stunning ingame visual FX facilitate art implementation and collaborate with studio artists and engineers to achieve superior gameplay experiences. Thorough knowledge of Unity is required.
Essential Job Functions:
- Create stunning visual FX to enhance gameplay
- Identify and solve technical issues related to the art pipeline
- Assist artists with technical aspects of asset implementation in Unity
- Optimize the performance of realtime FX and animation
- Document and evangelize best practices
- Creation of tools shaders and other components to enhance and refine the art implementation pipeline
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor of Arts in art animation computer science or equivalent experience
- At least one year of experience in game development
- At least one game shipped using Unity or other game engine
Required Experience:
- Thorough working knowledge of Unity including Prefabs Particle Systems and Materials
- Strong problemsolving skills
- Working knowledge of C#
- Working knowledge of 2D graphic software (Photoshop preferred)
- Experience working in an art/engineering content pipeline
- Working knowledge of animation state machines
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Working knowledge of MS Office specifically Excel and Outlook
Bonus XP:
- Proficient in Photoshop
- Familiarity with motion graphics & compositing editors (After Effects preferred)
- Familiarity with 3D animation & rendering applications 3DS Max and Maya preferred)
- Working knowledge of versioning software (Perforce preferred)
- Experience working in the slots and gambling industry
- Experience working with a team under tight deadlines
- Experience writing art tools
- Experience writing shaders (Cg preferred)
- Experience with technical documentation
- Experience with 3D modeling and animation
- Understanding of UI / UX principles across various platforms
- Selfmotivated and able to work on multiple projects with minimal direction
- Fluency in other coding languages especially JavaScript MAXScript and C
Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses. As a result certain L&W employees may among other things be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s) undergo background investigations or security checks or meet certain standards dictated by law regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law) you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.
This job description should not be interpreted as allinclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other jobrelated tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.
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Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race color sex age national origin religion sexual orientation gender identity status as a veteran and basis of disability or any other federal state or local protected class. If youd like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law please click here for EEOC Poster.
Employment Type
Full-Time
