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Senior Technical Artist

Job Overview

You will work in an environment where social skills are just as important as your professional skills. You will work with a team of talented and experienced game developers and engineers, who have worked on numerous best-selling and critically acclaimed titles.

Your role is to create complex tools, develop quality frameworks for art and game systems, work on general technical problem solving/support, help in improving the overall pipeline, and work closely with fellow artists & engineers on art implementation to the game.

As a senior tech artist, you will coordinate with other artists and technical artists, be instrumental in developing workflows and pipelines while mentoring and providing support. You will demonstrate your knowledge and experience with cameras, cinematic moments or showcasing gameplay highlights.

What will you do?

• Develop powerful and efficient workflows for the Art pipeline and asset management with complementary skills around cameras and cinematography.
• Research and help develop new technologies.
• Act as liaison between Engineering and Art/Creative departments identifying needs and improvement to efficiencies.
• Mentor and support the art team and coordinating with other tech artists to provide consistent, high quality, team support.
• Inspire and empower the art team to optimize their processes.
• Be instrumental with problem solving challenging and daily production challenges while maintaining high quality throughout.
• Oversight of art content pipeline, from tools all the way into the game.
• Create new techniques and procedures to improve game asset quality.
• Work efficiently within a prototyping production environment providing key art assets and efficient assets.
• Develop quality art assets where required and be instrumental with the vision for visual fidelity.
• Support and educate artists and engineers in the use of the art pipeline and user-facing engine tools.
• Review creative process and identify opportunities for tool improvements.
• Identify redundancies in our workflow and provide solutions for automation.
• Analyse and improve efficiencies within the art creation and implementation workflow to optimise performance.
• Responsible for collaboratively developing the production pipeline to ensure efficient asset creation and delivery, and a streamlined process for artists and engineers.
• Document pipeline and tools development processes.
• Be instrumental in the development of artistic techniques and processes utilized to define and achieve a product's visual style and encourage artistic technical evolution within the studio.

What are we looking for?

• Complete understanding of current game workflows and pipelines.
• Experience with multiple game engines.
• Experience with cameras, cinematography or showcasing gameplay moments
• Comprehensive knowledge of 3D content creation software including Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, Substance.
• Expert knowledge of architecting and developing tools in Python and the Qt Framework or native DCC language – Mel, Vex.
• Substantial working experience within a high-quality game or post studio environment, including at least one shipped title as a technical artist.
• A portfolio reflecting high quality game or production work, tools and expert understanding of workflows and practices.
• Extensive understanding of the performance implications of game art asset creation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven ability to communicate effectively with artists, designers, engineers, and other members of the development team.

What additional skills will help you stand out?

• Shader authoring skills.
• Leadership and/or mentoring experience.
• Experience with procedural pipelines.
• Expertise with agile development process.

About Wargaming:

Wargaming Sydney is one of the largest AAA development studios in Australia, and is the Aussie branch of Wargaming.net. Our studio works on new and established titles, advanced technologies to support games, and is currently working with our UK sister studio DPS games on a new AAA IP.

We’ve been voted a Great Place to Work, and are endorsed as a great Employer for Women by Work180. We don't tolerate workplace bullying, discrimination or harassment, and have created a workplace where all of our team can feel supported and included. All applicants will receive consideration equally, and we encourage applications from those who are traditionally under-represented in the technology industry.

Great benefits that we offer:

• Flexible hours
• A unique flexible benefits package which includes options for subsidized private health care, fitness/gym memberships, entertainment budgets, or even getting your house cleaned!
• Paid parental leave (both primary and secondary carers)
• Paid annual volunteer day
• Free office breakfast every day
• Weekly company-provided office lunch
• Fully stocked gaming room

Some of the learning opportunities we provide:

• Dedicated regular events to experiment, innovate and grow.
• Focus on growth towards your personal goals
• Internal & External Trainings
• Attending local and international conferences like GDC or GCAP
• Support for presenting at events and conferences
• Skilling up on industry standard technologies like Unreal Engine

What our studio culture focuses on:

• Open & feedback-rich environments
• Autonomy within the team
• Transparent decision making

Take a look at our website to find out more – https://wgsydney.com/

Please apply using the link on this page to embark on your career with Wargaming!

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