Senior Technical Artist

Overview

Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry we’d love to hear from you!

We will consider candidates for any of our four Bethesda Game Studios office locations: Rockville, MD; Montreal, Quebec; Austin, TX; Dallas, TX.

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As Senior Technical Artist, you will…

• Work closely with the Visual development lead to prototype the look of new graphic features (such as shaders, VFX tech, lighting tech, etc..)
• Audit, troubleshoot and validate existing and future rendering tech.
• Collaborate closely with graphic engineers to ensure the prototypes are achievable in term of quality and performance.
• Interact with art department leads (Character, World Art, etc...) in order to identify their shaders needs for content creation.
• Report to the tech art lead and collaborate with other tech artists.
• Develop and communicate technical art standards, best practices, and techniques.
• Troubleshoot and address performance issues in the game pertaining to Shaders, Materials, Textures.
• Write documentation and collaborate with other teams.

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• You have 3+ years’ experience in the video game industry in a similar role.
• You have in-depth knowledge of PBR tech and workflows.
• You possess a strong knowledge of shader development, node base shading editor, HLSL or other coding languages for shaders
• You have a strong understanding of how real-time lighting works in games
• You have experience with a proprietary engine, unreal or Unity
• You have experience creating 3D assets (modeling, UVs, texturing)
• You are proficient with modern art content pipelines including 3dsMax (Maya is a plus) and Substance Painter (Designer is plus)

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills

• You have experience with Color management workflow
• You are experienced with Python and C++
• You have a good knowledge of HDR technicities
• You have experience with VFX creation
• You shipped a AAA or an open world game