Senior Unity Technical Artist creating and integrating 2D/3D assets, VFX, shaders, and animations for Seismic Squirrel’s narrative RPG videogames. Optimizing visuals, solving art challenges, and collaborating remotely across development teams.
About the role
- Senior VFX Artist creating high-fidelity real-time visual effects for Cyberpunk 2 at CD PROJEKT RED. Collaborating with teams to innovate workflows and support gameplay, cinematics, and environments.
Responsibilities
- Create high-quality, real-time visual effects across a variety of VFX types.
- Collaborate with teams across disciplines to support gameplay, cinematics, and environments with top-tier VFX.
- Partner with peers to innovate and research new workflows, tools, and techniques that push real-time VFX forward.
- Deliver VFX work that performs well and aligns with technical budgets.
- Populate environments with engaging and accessible VFX.
- Help foster a culture of creativity, trust, and technical excellence.
- Work with department leads and production to estimate and plan work effectively.
Requirements
- Significant experience in real-time VFX creation (typically 5+ years).
- A portfolio demonstrating strong skills in game VFX creation.
- Experience with both real-time and baked simulations.
- Familiarity with VFX tools and pipelines (e.g., Houdini, Max, Maya).
- Expertise in Unreal Engine 5, Niagara, and related systems.
- Understanding of PBR concepts, real-time rendering, shaders, and lighting.
- Experience optimizing performance for real-time VFX.
- Creative and strategic problem-solving skills.
- Proactive contribution to shared goals and willingness to share knowledge.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to various audiences.
- Candidates should include a portfolio in their application.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical healthcare (dental, vision, and mental)
- Free mental health support, including access to counseling, psychiatric care, and a variety of well-being webinars.
- Paid leave — 26 days of holiday per year.
- RRSP with employer matching.
- Gym Membership Reimbursement.
- Menstrual leave — employees who menstruate can take one extra day off when experiencing period pain.
- RED Parents Network — support for working parents, including childcare benefits, and family-friendly events.
- Flexible working hours.
- Trainings, lectures, and courses — internal workshops, knowledge-sharing initiatives, online tutorials, and e-learning classes are all available.
- A welcome pack filled with goodies.
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