Sr. Technical Artist, Games Studo

5 Months ago • All levels • Technical Art • $90,000 PA - $600,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Netflix is seeking an experienced and highly-skilled Senior Technical Artist to help teams achieve iconic visual styles and build the tools and workflows to realize them efficiently. You will work closely with the art team and engineering team to author performant stylized shaders, establish best-practice asset budgets, and be a key partner in optimization to ensure players can be immersed in a beloved Netflix IP punctuated by frenetic action gameplay with a light-hearted twist smoothly on cloud. Responsibilities include bringing art style to life, sharpening performance, owning asset development pipeline, and empowering a small team.
Must have:
  • Expert in Unity development, particularly URPH
  • Knowledge of shaders and materials with graphic, stylized looks
  • Working knowledge of mainstream 2D and 3D art software
  • Experience supporting a cross-specialization art team in tools and processes
  • Shipped mobile software and/or games as a technical artist
  • Insatiable learner both inside and outside of specialization
  • Excels in online communication and collaboration with a remote team
  • Experience creating amazing art on legacy platforms (Switch, Mobile, etc.)
Good to have:
  • Rigging capabilities
  • Experience authoring tools to speed up art production pipeline
  • Experience building tools for emergent platform
  • Strong art foundation
  • Understanding of 2D animation
  • Experience with procedural tools
Perks:
  • Health Plans
  • Mental Health support
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match
  • Stock Option Program
  • Disability Programs
  • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Family-forming benefits
  • Life and Serious Injury Benefits
  • Paid leave of absence programs

Job Details

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced and highly-skilled Senior Technical Artist who is passionate about helping teams achieve iconic visual styles and building the tools and workflows to  realize them efficiently.  In this role, you will work closely with the art team and engineering team to author performant stylized shaders, establish best-practice asset budgets, and be a key partner in optimization to ensure players can be immersed in a beloved Netflix IP punctuated by frenetic action gameplay with a light-hearted twist smoothly on cloud.

The right candidate has expertise in lighting and shaders in cell shading styles as well as working in Unity’s scripted rendering pipeline.  Your technical knowledge and insatiable appetite to learn and to problem-solve will be essential in helping us achieve a high quality look on cloud. Your communication skills will further strengthen the close collaboration between engineering and art to speed up our pipelines.


THE TEAM


ISX’s mission is to empower small teams of exceptional developers to build breakout hits, leveraging innovative gameplay married with beloved IPs and served seamlessly within the Netflix streaming ecosystem. You will join the group of developers who are aligned with our core values, and care deeply about the experiences they create as well as the people they make them with. Those who bias towards action and are energized by the learning that comes with bold experimentation at an agile pace. As a part of Netflix, we strive to hire the best and value integrity, excellence, respect, inclusion, and collaboration.

Responsibilities 

  • Bring Art Style to Life: Work closely with the art team to replicate the stylization of concept art in game assets.  Continued iterations throughout the project to push for better visual quality using lighting and shaders while keeping a close eye on performance.

  • Sharpen Performance: Collaborating with both the art team and engineering team to level up our visual style even on low-end hardware.

  • Own Asset Development Pipeline: Owns development of asset creation pipelines in partnership with art discipline leads. Sources or author's tools and workflows that are efficient for developing games in 2D and 3D software such as Photoshop and Maya.

  • Empowers a Small Team: Actively builds relationships across disciplines (art, engineering, & Design), driving open discussion and research around new development pipelines.

The Ideal Candidate

  • Is an expert in Unity development, in particular, URP

  • Has knowledge of shaders and materials with graphic, stylized looks

  • Has working knowledge of mainstream 2D and 3D art software

  • Has experience supporting a cross-specialization art team in tools and processes

  • Has shipped mobile software and /or games as a technical artist

  • Is an insatiable learner both inside and outside of their specialization

  • Excels in online communication and collaboration with a remote team

  • Has experience creating amazing art on legacy platforms (Switch, Mobile, etc..)

Bonus Skills

  • Rigging capabilities

  • Experience authoring tools to speed up art production pipeline

  • Experience building tools for emergent platform

  • Strong art foundation

  • Understanding of 2D animation

  • Experience with procedural tools

Required Application Materials 

  • Resume

  • Link to Portfolio

Location: 

  • Orange County or Los Angeles preferred

  • Will consider remote applicants who are willing to travel for work related events and work a PST-oriented dev team schedule.

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $90,000 - $600,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs.  Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits .

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

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