Technical Artist - China

Please note that this role will eventually be based in China. The new hire will be supported in obtaining a work visa. Depending on the situation, they may be allowed to work outside of China during the probationary period.

Keywords Studios is an international service provider in the global video games industry with studios in Madrid, Dublin, London, Barcelona, Milan, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, New Delhi, Pune, Montreal, Seattle, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Portland, Raleigh, Orlando, and Rio de Janeiro (among others!). With over 9,000 employees passionate about games around the world, we provide a range of translation, testing, audio, customer care, engineering and art production services to Video Game Developers and Publishers alike.

Keywords Studios China provides a professional yet fun environment that stimulates personal individual growth, inspiring loyalty among employees. You will work with talented, driven, and creative people--and create the most epic experiences together. Keywords Studios China is focused on hiring and retaining the best and brightest, fostering an environment of creativity and camaraderie.

As a technical artist, you will develop tools and scripts to aid art asset creation and optimization. You will also help artists prepare art assets for game systems and engines to ensure that our client’s technical requirements are met.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide support and create tools and workflows for working with game engines and project pipelines.
• Stay on top of the latest and greatest tools and techniques for producing current/next gen game art.
• Provide hands-on support to Artists and Project Managers to maintain Artist efficiency, asset performance, and asset quality.
• Collaborate with Artists and Project Managers to diagnose and resolve challenging technical issues.
• Maintaining, improving, and documenting new or existing tools.

Requirements

• 3-5 years working experience as a technical artist (or industry equivalent) programming/scripting tools.
• Minimum 1 year experience in a digital art content creation pipeline, ideally, but not necessarily in the video game industry.
• A strong ability to think creatively and overcome technical challenges.
• Experiences using in the following softwares, tools are preferred:

-Unreal/Unity

-Maya/Blender/3D Max

-Substance Designer

-General Automation

-Shaders (Setup or authoring)

-Perforce

-Python (or C, C++, C#, etc)

• An interest in video games.

Behavioural Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent attention to detail; a quick learner.
• Ability to multi-task with projects and resources.
• Ability to work independently.
• Problem solving attitude with experience in working in a dynamic

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Initial Remote work set-up, provided assistance to relocate to China when needed
• Working on AAA projects in the Game Industry

Keywords International is dedicated to following a well-established Equal Opportunities Policy. We endeavour to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.

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