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Senior Technical Artist – Poker
Zynga is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to embark on the next adventure with us! If you’re a dedicated, curious, and highly motivated tech artist who loves problem solving with our Directors and Engineers, you will be a phenomenal fit for our diverse and creative team!
Main Responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Art and Engineering teams to construct and implement game assets in Unity
- Enforce optimal performance and efficiency of the game’s final visual assets.
- Work effectively to tackle any art-related bugs.
- Define, maintain and troubleshoot pipeline for in game assets
- Develop and maintain tools for the production pipeline, particularly for animation and technical art tasks
- Create materials/shaders to achieve unique styles and hit amazing visual quality
- Create, maintain, and communicate technical art guidelines and implementation techniques with other team members
- Maintain clean, optimized project, periodically auditing assets and sprite atlases, etc
- Profile builds and provide and implement solutions to address performance issues
- Our ideal candidate is a great communicator, teammate, and proactive problem solver. You draw from a range of skills to creatively determine solutions. You are a contributor of ideas, overseer of pipelines, and collaborator across discipline lines providing expertise and seeking out potential issues before they become problems
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Effective communication with team members of varying disciplines including written documentation of pipeline processes
- 4+ years of experience with Unity and/or other engines.
- Intermediate skills with 3D modeling, rigging and UV texturing with professional 3D software such as Maya or ZBrush
- Scripting with C#
- Understanding of optimizing 3D and 2D assets for memory and performance considerations
- Intermediate skills creating high quality VFX particle systems in Unity
- Experience writing and modifying shaders
- Experience with C# tools
- Familiarity with C++ or Python tool creation
- Core Adobe Creative Suite skills
- Technical background in developing scripts, Photoshop actions, and other automation tools vital for art implementation and optimization
- Proven experience in game development, with shipped titles
- Experience with profiling tools
- Experience with version control software such as Perforce, Git
- Have an understanding of Animation and VFX experience is a plus
What we offer you:
- Competitive salary, bonus plan, Take-Two RSU’s (Restricted Stock Units), ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
- 401K Company Match Contribution
- Medical, dental, vision, EAP, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
- Family planning support program
- Generous paid maternity/parental leave
- Subsidized Back-up child care
- Discretionary Time Off policy for many employees
- Flexible working hours on many teams
- Culture of diversity and inclusion including employee resource groups
- Work with cool people and impact millions of daily players
Hiring Update: The safety of our candidates and team members is our top priority. During the COVID-19 pandemic, our workforce transitioned to working from home, with all interviewing and onboarding being conducted virtually until further notice.
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