Principal/Senior Technical Artist (LookDev)

3 Months ago • 8-8 Years • Technical Art

Job Summary

Job Description

TiMi Montreal seeks a Senior/Principal Technical Artist (LookDev) to contribute to a AAA open-world game using Unreal Engine 5. Responsibilities include developing scalable art content pipelines and tools, conducting feature benchmarking, creating asset banks (textures, materials, VFX), establishing art production guidelines, producing visual benchmarks, collaborating with programmers, supporting artists, defining performance budgets, fixing performance issues, optimizing for console/PC, and writing technical documentation. The ideal candidate possesses at least eight years of AAA game development experience, including at least two shipped open-world titles on current-gen consoles. Proficiency in procedural content creation (Houdini), scripting (Python, C#), 3D/2D software (3DS Max, Blender, Photoshop, Substance), shaders, and Niagara (VFX) is essential. Strong collaboration, communication, and artistic skills are also required.
Must have:
  • 8+ years AAA game dev experience
  • 2+ AAA open-world game releases
  • Unreal Engine 4/5 expertise
  • Pipeline & tool development
  • Shader & VFX knowledge
  • Strong collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Houdini experience
  • Python/C# scripting
  • 3D/2D software proficiency

Job Details

Business Unit/Département commercial

TiMi Studio Group is an award-winning game development and operations team that strives to improve global players’ entertainment quality. TiMi is part of Tencent Games and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China with offices in Los Angeles, Montreal, Seattle, Shanghai and Chengdu. It strives to create high quality, high fidelity, highly creative games across a wide variety of genres and multiple platforms.

TiMi Studio Group est une équipe primée de développement et d’exploitation de jeux. Elle s’efforce d’améliorer la qualité de divertissement des joueurs mondiaux. TiMi fait partie de la division Tencent Games et siège à Shenzhen, Chine avec des bureaux à Los Angeles, Montréal, Seattle, Shanghai et Chengdu. TiMi s’efforce de créer des jeux de haute qualité, très créatifs avec une grande fidélité sur une grande variété de genres et de plateformes.

About the Hiring Team/À propos de l'équipe de recrutement

TiMi Montreal is a new AAA development team making an innovative open world role-playing game in Unreal Engine 5 that is part of the award-winning TiMi Studio Group and Tencent. The studio’s core team has a proven track record making hit open world games, including Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Watch Dogs. This is an ambitious team who aspires to be a flagship first-party studio for TiMi, reaching global audiences of passionate gamers who appreciate the studio’s optimistic and inclusive culture that rewards disruptive, risk-taking game development.

TiMi Montréal est une nouvelle équipe de développement AAA créant un jeu de rôle innovant en monde ouvert dans Unreal Engine 5 qui fait partie du groupe primé TiMi Studio Group et Tencent. L’équipe principale du studio a une expérience éprouvée dans la réalisation de jeux à succès en monde ouvert, notamment Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry et Watch Dogs. Il s’agit d’une équipe ambitieuse qui aspire à être un studio phare pour TiMi, atteignant un public mondial de joueurs passionnés qui apprécient la culture optimiste et inclusive du studio qui récompense le développement de jeux de rupture et de prise de risque.

What the Role Entails/Ce que le rôle comprend

Award-winning TiMi Studio Group seeks a Senior/Principal Technical Artist to develop a AAA, open-world game based on a new IP. The project will be released on multiple platforms using Unreal’s latest technology. As a Senior/Principal Technical Artist, your role will be to develop content creation pipelines and features that support our art direction.

We are a new studio within TiMi Studio Group, a subsidiary of Tencent Games. We are passionate about creating compelling worlds for players to explore for years to come. Are you looking to push the boundaries of what games can achieve visually? Are you passionate about the combination of art and technology? Then, come join us in our ambitious endeavor.

What will you do?

The Senior/Principal Technical Artist works in collaboration with the Art Director, Technical Art Director and Programmers to define and create the pipelines needed to produce art content production. They offer guidelines and support for a team of artists, identifying technological improvements that maximize quality, performance and efficiency. They are comfortable working in a highly collaborative and innovative environment.


 

  • Develop scalable art content production pipeline and tools that support our creative vision

  • Do benchmarking for our features through research and testing

  • Work on creating asset banks (such as textures, materials, vfxs)

  • Establish rules and guidelines for art content production

  • Produce visual benchmarks that push technology forward and maximize quality

  • Collaborate with programming team to guide feature development

  • Support a team of artists to build content efficiently and consistently

  • Define performance budgets for specific components of the game

  • Fix performance issues and polish our features

  • Profile and optimize performance on console/PC

  • Write and maintain technical documentation

Who We Look For/Qui cherchons-nous

What we’re looking for?

  • At least eigth years of professional AAA game development experience 

  • At least two AAA open world titles shipped in the current generation of consoles

  • Experience and knowledge of all or some of the following: Procedural content creation (Houdini); Scripting languages (Python, C#); 3D and 2D software (3DSMax, Blender, Photoshop, Substance); Shaders; Niagara (VFX) 

  • Experience using Unreal Engine 4 or 5

  • Excellent understanding of art content production, integration and validation

  • Team player, highly collaborative and results oriented

  • Good communication and presentation skills

  • Artistic skills - proportion, colour, composition, lighting

  • Autonomous and proactive to develop highly efficient solutions

  • Curious about learning and implementing new technologies based on industry trends

What is in it for you?

Create AAA multi-platform games with ample resources and support: Bring incredible game ideas to players around the world with the support of one of the most successful studios in the world. TiMi has developed some of the most popular games worldwide and is looking for talented individuals to join it in making another major hit.

Develop for global audiences and make an impression on the entire industry: Join TiMi in making games as part of an ambitious, talented, and seasoned team.

Create new worlds for players to explore, experience and enjoy: Join a team who cares about innovation and wants to delight players with new creative game design for open world experiences. Help create the next great game world for players to immerse in for decades to come. 

Why Join Us?/Pourquoi nous rejoindre?

Develop games that improve the entertainment quality for global audiences and make an impression on the entire industry. Join a studio featuring an ambitious, talented, and seasoned team working in an optimistic and inclusive environment. Create new worlds for players to explore, experience and enjoy as you join a team who cares about innovation and wants to delight players with new creative game design for open world experiences. Help create the next great game world for players to immerse in for decades to come. 

Développez des jeux qui améliorent la qualité de divertissement pour un public mondial et font une impression sur l’ensemble du secteur. Rejoignez un studio avec une équipe ambitieuse, talentueuse et expérimentée travaillant dans un environnement optimiste et inclusif. Créez de nouveaux mondes à explorer, expérimenter et apprécier en rejoignant une équipe qui s’intéresse à l’innovation et qui et veut ravir les joueurs avec une nouvelle conception de jeu créative pour des expériences en monde ouvert. Aidez à créer le prochain grand monde de jeu dans lequel les joueurs pourront s’immerger pendant des décennies.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent/Postes ouverts à tous chez Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

En tant qu’employeur qui souscrit au principe de l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi, nous croyons fermement que la multiplicité des voix nourrit notre innovation et nous permet de mieux servir nos utilisateurs et la collectivité. Nous favorisons un milieu dans lequel tous les employés se sentent soutenus et inspirés dans l’atteinte de leurs objectifs personnels et des objectifs communs.

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About The Company

TiMi Studio Group, a subsidiary of Tencent Games, is a leading global video game development and operation team that strives to improve global players’ entertainment quality. Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, with North American offices in Los Angeles, Montréal and Seattle, TiMi creates high quality, high fidelity and highly creative games across a wide variety of genres and multiple platforms. Founded in 2008, TiMi has developed a string of hit titles including Honor of Kings, Call of Duty: Mobile and Pokémon UNITE.

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