Unity VFX Artist
Job Summary
Job Description
Roboto Games is seeking a Unity VFX Artist for a contract role on Stormforge, a stylized open-world survival crafting game. The artist will create real-time VFX for combat, characters, environments, and storms using Unity VFX Graph/Shader Graph. This role involves collaborating with various teams to maintain cohesive style and performance, and rapidly iterating effects from blockout to shippable quality.
Must have:
- Create stylized real-time VFX for a 3rd-person action game (combat, characters, environment, storms)
- Build Unity VFX Graph/Shader Graph effects and prefabs ready for in-engine use
- Collaborate with concept, environment, tech art, design, and engineering to maintain a cohesive style and solid runtime performance
- Rapidly iterate in-engine, from blockout to shippable quality
- Strong reel/portfolio of stylized real-time VFX in Unity
- 2+ years building gameplay VFX (outstanding juniors considered with exceptional reels)
- Hands-on with VFX Graph & Shader Graph; comfortable building reusable prefabs
- Familiar with URP performance considerations (draw calls, overdraw, batching/instancing, texture memory)
- Strong art fundamentals: shape language, color, timing, composition, visual hierarchy for readability
- Excellent sense of timing/motion and how VFX supports gameplay clarity
Good to have:
- Light C# scripting for triggers, events, and effect hooks
- GPU instancing / compute for high-density effects
- Houdini for flipbooks/meshes and After Effects for motion tests
Perks:
- Be one of the core team members shaping a bold, cross-platform survival game
- Your voice will be heard — you’ll have real ownership and impact on the player experience
- Work with a friendly, talented, and diverse team of game industry veterans
- Play a key role in both development and player-facing content
- Flexible remote work (within 4 hours of Pacific Time)
8 skills required
Job Details
Hi! We’re Roboto Games—a venture-backed studio led by folks who previously shipped at PopCap and EA, with 10+ years’ experience each and games played by 65M+ players. Our mission: games that are good alone and great together.
Stormforge is a stylized open-world survival crafting game where players craft, build, fight, and harness epic magical storms to survive.
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Responsibilities
- Create stylized real-time VFX for a 3rd-pern action game (combat, characters, environment, storms)
- Build Unity VFX Graph/Shader Graph effects and prefabs ready for in-engine use
- Collaborate with concept, environment, tech art, design, and engineering to maintain a cohesive style and solid runtime performance
- Rapidly iterate in-engine, from blockout to shippable quality
Requirements
- Strong reel/portfolio of stylized real-time VFX in Unity
- 2+ years building gameplay VFX (outstanding juniors considered with exceptional reels)
- Hands-on with VFX Graph & Shader Graph; comfortable building reusable prefabs
- Familiar with URP performance considerations (draw calls, overdraw, batching/instancing, texture memory)
- Strong art fundamentals: shape language, color, timing, composition, visual hierarchy for readability
- Excellent sense of timing/motion and how VFX supports gameplay clarity
Nice to Haves
- Light C# scripting for triggers, events, and effect hooks
- GPU instancing / compute for high-density effects
- Houdini for flipbooks/meshes and After Effects for motion tests
Contract Details
- Start: September 2025 End: April 2026 (could be extended)
- 30 - 40 hours per week
- Classification: Independent contractor; monthly invoicing; standard work-for-hire/IP assignment
- Art tests: If requested, paid and scoped to ≤1 working day
- Rate: based on experience and location; please include your expected hourly rate
- Location: Remote (within 4 hours of Pacific Time)
The Game You’ll be Working on
- Stormforge is an open world survival crafting game where players will craft, build, fight, and harness epic storms to survive in a magical fantasy world
- Premium game, launching on PC Steam
- 3rd person action/adventure game built in Unity
- Real-time multiplayer co-op for 1 to 8 players
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Why work with Roboto Games?
- Be one of the core team members shaping a bold, cross-platform survival game
- Your voice will be heard — you’ll have real ownership and impact on the player experience
- Work with a friendly, talented, and diverse team of game industry veterans
- Play a key role in both development and player-facing content
- Flexible remote work (within 4 hours of Pacific Time)
Roboto Games Culture and Values
- Have Fun
- Define a vision, then test early and test often
- Have the hard conversations when needed
- We are high performers
- Everyone on the team has a voice
- Treat others like they want to be treated
- Diversity is not just an afterthought, it’s part of who we are
- Support a great remote experience
- We’re not satisfied with the status quo
- Take on big challenges
- Make games that are fun and that our players love to play
- Be transparent with our community
- Address the core issues, not the loud voices
How To Apply
Please fill out the form to apply. https://forms.gle/NCAeghhNRozJPLGs5
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About The Company
We’re Roboto Games, a minty fresh venture-backed games company. Before this we were leading games at PopCap and EA and this isn’t our first rodeo/game studio. In 2007 we founded ZipZapPlay, a web and Facebook gaming company (we baked lots of cupcakes while making Baking Life), which we sold to PopCap (zombies also eat cupcakes it turns out) before they sold to EA in 2011. On average, we have 12 years of experience designing games across many genres and platforms with over $100m in revenue and over 65m players. At Roboto, our mission is to make games that are good alone and great together.
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