Technical Artist

About QLOC

Although we’re recognized worldwide as one of the best porting vendors, we’re more than just a bunch of cross-platform devs. Our team includes over 450 specialists who are experienced in Quality Assurance, Localization and Art Design. We provide functional, compliance, localization and compatibility testing, translate and localize games into 35 languages, and deliver 2D and 3D graphics, characters and concept art.

Position

• Collaborating closely with our clients’ artists and engineers to ensure that technical production goals are achieved and no visual fidelity is lost
• Ability to analyze and assess a given set of existing, vast game project files and after in-depth recognition of rendering and asset preparation pipelines going a step further, proposing a solution beneficial for all teams collaborating
• Tweaking or optimizing shaders, toolchains, pre-cook preparation and cooking process
• Finding the solutions to differentiate assets quality for current-gen and next-gen SKUs 
• Taking care of the content creation pipeline in order to find ways to optimize/automate workflow 
• Assessment of existing VFX and destruction systems and pipelines provided by our clients
• Cooperating with Level Designers and Narrative Designers

Your qualification

• At least 2+ years of experience in game development as a Technical Artist, technically strong Environment Artist or FX Artist 
• Experience with game polishing and optimization pass
• Excellent technical skills in Unreal Engine 4 (especially shaders, rendering, cooking)
• Experience and skill in using Unreal Material Editor or any shader language (HLSL/CG/ShaderLab)
• Vast experience and passion for profiling using advanced profiling techniques, not only Unreal but also NVIDIA and AMD
• Experience with or willingness to learn Houdini, working with areas such as destroy systems, procedural generation and automatic LOD generation
• Experience or knowledge helpful in providing inhouse plugins for Maya, Max or other 3D graphic tools
• Basic knowledge of scripting or programming languages helpful in automation, pipeline creation or cooperation with programmers while working on tools
• Wide knowledge about current game trends and solutions
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

Will be a plus

• Experience or theoretical knowledge of DX12 RTX and DXR technologies / Vulkan API
• Experience with squeezing extra results out of low-specs hardware, oldschool computers or bearing the spirit of the demoscene
• Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

What we offer

• Interesting and dynamic work atmosphere in a professional, experienced team 
• Work with very strong IPs
• Ability to put an extra brick in gamedev technology evolution, incorporating our findings as new standards in inhouse tools
• Full-time contract with a competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• Work in a modern office building
• Shared financing of Multisport card that grants access to multiple sports facilities
• Shared financing of private healthcare in Enel-Med; Polish, English or Japanese classes
• Fresh fruit and juice delivery, great coffee
• Contact with the newest digital entertainment technologies
• Relocation assistance 
• Help and support with handling work and residence permit procedures, if needed
• Ability to gain work and life balance – staying away from crunch culture