Technical Artist

Since 2011, our adventure game Star Stable Online has changed the gaming industry, providing a platform for girls to come together and share an amazing online experience. Our mission is to transform the gaming industry to make it more diverse and inclusive for all. At Star Stable Entertainment you will be a part of diverse culture with a no-crunch policy, a prioritized work-life balance, and a workforce that is eager to test and try new things!

We are now looking for a Technical Artist to join our magical adventure in Star Stable Online, and help us set new creatures free.

This is an essential role to ensure our continued growth across increasingly more complex hardware. As a Technical Artist at Star Stable, you will be the bridge between code and art, ensuring that art content and features are optimized and well-integrated into the game. To help us best benefit from your technical knowledge, you will be working closely with the art director, artists, and programmers.

What you’ll be doing:

- Writing shaders using GLSL and HLSL
- Optimizing 3d assets
- Creating scripts to make exporting, and the overall workflow, easier for the artists
- Scripts for Photoshop
- Optimizing and building tools for SSO's game editor
- Assisting with the art pipeline
- Developing new tools

To thrive in this role, we believe that you:

- Have knowledge of python scripting and Maya.
- Have experience in the games industry as a Technical Artist, but most importantly, an in-depth understanding of art tools and production processes.
- Are a great team player and communicator. You want to help your colleagues to automate processes and improve efficiency.
- Enjoy solving problems and technical challenges.
- Have great time management and organizational skills.
- Experience in a full digital art content creation pipeline
- Experience with game editors and engines
- Artistic skills (modeling, texturing, photoshop)
- Ability to create technical documentation

Did we just describe your dream job? This is what we can offer you:

- A growing journey where you will have a lot of impact on the player experience within our flagship product, Star Stable Online exists on multiple platforms.
- A pretty sweet mission. We want to build quality games for girls and we take that vision very seriously. We strive to hit that mark every single day.
- We may be a big group, but we’re a tight-knit team! A diverse team of friendly, fun, and supportive co-workers from 20 different countries!
- We’re more than 50%female identifying! #YES to #WomenInTech!
- Flexible working opportunities.
- 30 Vacation Days.
- ITP1 Insurance plan.
- Parental pay top up to 90%
- 5,000 SEK per year Health allowance.

We’re very excited to hear more about our next Technical Artist so reach out and apply!

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