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Lighting Technical Artist, Spotlight

As a Lighting Artist on the Spotlight Team you will work closely with key Game Developers and partners, to guide innovation and visualisation with Unity. The team collaborate with our partners to make outstanding visuals possible, with the development of templates, advice and the creation of sample assets.

As part of the Spotlight team you’ll be able to create high-end visuals using your rendering, lighting, and maybe, animation, materials or modelling skills, to help our partners achieve this too. You’ll give aesthetic advice as well as technical advice on how to use our tools. You’ll be creating shaders, materials, and lighting setups to make the visuals shine. You’ll work with our partners to understand their aims, offering guidance and support on how best to achieve their vision.

You’ll be called on to work with internal teams to give feedback on tools, test other products, trial workflows, work with our UX teams, test UI of new features and drive the engine forwards.

This is an opportunity to gain far reaching influence in new and existing areas of games dev and industry. You’ll be deeply involved in AAA development whilst maintaining a work/life balance. You’ll develop your skills and have the opportunity to learn through creating sample content to inform our users. You’ll nurture relationships with industry leading teams, meet new people and travel to partners on occasion.

This role may require travel, on average 4 days per month.

Responsibilities

• Work with well known game developers to create high-end and cutting edge showcases for Unity
• Understand Unity’s tools and workflows and provide advice as needed
• Know how to create graphical quality to the highest level, and never be satisfied with anything less
• Advise on how to improve current features, or suggest new ones
• Create sample assets for our partners or Unity customers in general
• Work closely with the Spotlight engineers and the wider company to create new features or improve current ones

Requirements

• Game development experience
• Great communication skills and the ability to collaborate with engineers, designers, artists, testers, and other developers
• Experience in lighting and post effects
• Experience with Unity, Unreal or another game engine

Bonus points

• Understanding of C# or scripting languages
• Ability to create shaders and materials
• Experience managing external partners and outsourcers
• Traditional drawing skills

Who We Are

Unity is the creator of the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform, giving users the most powerful and accessible tools to create, operate, and monetize experiences for the real-time world. Unity empowers anyone, regardless of skill level and industry, to create 3D visual content using world-class technology, operate using resources that maximize ease-of-use, and monetize, so that they can find success with their creations.

The company’s 1,000 person development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners such as Google, Oculus, Autodesk, Microsoft and many more, to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Made with Unity experiences reach nearly 3 billion devices worldwide and have been installed more than 34 billion times in the last 12 months. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

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