Technical Artist [Snowdrop]

Job Description

Snowdrop is a powerful game engine that enables Ubisoft content creators to set their creative minds free. Fast and flexible, Snowdrop gives developers innovative tools designed from the ground up for creating the unknown. Snowdrop provides the perfect canvas for game developers to paint the games of the future.

We are looking for a Technical Artist to join our Snowdrop™ team. In this role you will be working on the Snowdrop™ content pipeline; you will support our art teams using our in-house developed engine Snowdrop at Ubisoft. You will frequently interact across teams with our other artists, level designers and programmers. In this position you will not be working directly on one specific game, but on the underlying engine of multiple games.

This is a permanent position based in Malmö Sweden, with the opportunity to work partially from home according to our Flexible Workplace Policy. Please apply in English (our company language), and we’ll check your application asap!

What you'll do

• Day-to-day Art and Tech team support
• Help improving Snowdrop processes
• Assist other team members in achieving their tasks more efficiently
• Documentation of systems and art pipeline
• Creating samples, examples, and prototypes
• Advising best workflows to safeguard memory budgets for art assets
• Documenting and iterating on how to improve the process relating to performance optimization of art assets
• Handling and maintaining the art specific tools that are content developer facing

Qualifications

What you'll bring

You are passionate about technical quality and games. You are open to new ideas, and you constantly aspire to push your work to the highest possible level. As a Technical Artist you are inspired by innovative technology and clever solutions. You are constantly on the lookout for ways to enhance the visual quality, the tech behind it or the workflow to achieve it. It is also important that you have strong verbal and written communication skills to be able to share your knowledge with the rest of the team. Preferably you have a combination of classical or 3D art training with a good technical knowledge and a focus on games. You are interested in engine development and want to work on improving workflows and pipelines for multiple teams.

Besides the above we’re looking for someone aligned with our core values and the following skills and experience:

• Professional experience with using and customizing DCCs for modelling, procedural content creation and/or texture creation. (We utilize Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Blender, 3Ds Max, Maya, Motionbuilder, and Photoshop)
• Scripting in Python or C#
• Shipped one title as Technical Artist
• Experience with art asset optimization techniques
• Experience with memory budgets and optimization
• Solid game engine knowledge and experience (proprietary and/or Unreal or Unity)
• Experience of multi-platform development is an advantage
• Any adjacent field (Level Design, Art, UI (User Interface), Animation) is beneficial but not a must, as we often work cross disciplinary

Additional Information

Massive Entertainment is a world-leading AAA studio located in Malmö, Sweden and part of the Ubisoft family. We’re a multinational team of more than 750 passionate and highly skilled people from 50+ different countries. Our studio’s goal has always been – and still is – to craft the finest gaming experiences for all players.

At Massive, you get to do what you love most while bringing your own experience to our ongoing projects, like Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and The Star Wars Project. We're also developing new tech here, such as our in-house engine Snowdrop, and Ubisoft Connect - Ubisoft's digital ecosystem and distribution platform.

You can also find a summary of the Massive Job Perks here.

Questions? We're more then happy to answer them. Please contact Moa Sellin Ödling, Talent Acquisition Specialist, at [email protected]

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