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Senior Technical Artist

Position Overview

Zynga is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to embark on the next adventure with us! If you're a dedicated, curious, and highly motivated tech artist who loves problem solving with our Directors and Engineers, you will be a phenomenal fit for our diverse and creative team!

Main Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Art and Engineering teams to construct and implement game assets in Unity

• Enforce optimal performance and efficiency of the game’s final visual assets.

• Work effectively to tackle any art-related bugs.

• Define, maintain and troubleshoot pipeline for in game assets

• Develop and maintain tools for the production pipeline, particularly for animation and technical art tasks

• Create materials/shaders to achieve unique styles and hit amazing visual quality

• Create, maintain, and communicate technical art guidelines and implementation techniques with other team members

• Maintain clean, optimized project, periodically auditing assets and sprite atlases, etc

• Profile builds and provide and implement solutions to address performance issues

• Our ideal candidate is a great communicator, teammate, and proactive problem solver. You draw from a range of skills to creatively determine solutions. You are a contributor of ideas, overseer of pipelines, and collaborator across discipline lines providing expertise and seeking out potential issues before they become problems

Desired Skills and Experience

• Effective communication with team members of varying disciplines including written documentation of pipeline processes

• 4+ years of experience with Unity and/or other engines.

• Intermediate skills with 3D modeling, rigging and UV texturing with professional 3D software such as Maya or ZBrush

• Scripting with C#

• Understanding of optimizing 3D and 2D assets for memory and performance considerations

• Intermediate skills creating high quality VFX particle systems in Unity

• Experience writing and modifying shaders

• Experience with C# tools]

• Familiarity with C++ or Python tool creation

• Core Adobe Creative Suite skills

• Technical background in developing scripts, Photoshop actions, and other automation tools vital for art implementation and optimization

• Proven experience in game development, with shipped titles

• Experience with profiling tools

• Experience with version control software such as Perforce, Git

• Have an understanding of Animation and VFX experience is a plus