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Archiact Interactive is a full-service immersive reality studio creating the highest quality content with the industry's most exciting partners. Located in downtown Vancouver, Canada, we're changing the world of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) game development. Our most recent titles include the award-nominated PC VR adventure FREEDIVER: Triton Down, and MARVEL Dimension of Heroes, a smartphone-powered Super Hero experience built for Lenovo Mirage AR.

At Archiact, diversity is one of our core values developed and driven by our employees. Inclusion is the way we show our commitment to this core value. Diversity in all areas of our workforce helps us build innovative and immersive experiences that are accessible to everyone.

Summary:

Archiact is looking for a Junior Technical Artist to join our agile and fast paced team. This strong communicator will work closely with Art and Engineering to assist with developing assets, tools, and new standards and workflows – whatever it takes to push the visual quality of our games to new levels!

About you:

You are a Technical Artist with a unique skillset. You may consider yourself to be a generalist, or you may have vast experience in one specific area of a pipeline. You enjoy the creative iterative problem-solving process required to bring original concepts and high-profile IPs to life. You thrive in teams and are open to taking on new challenges to assist in raising the quality bar. If you think you’ve got what it takes to join the Archiact team we’d like to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

  • Reporting to the Director of Technology and working closely with the Art and Engineering Teams, you will help establish the Art Production Pipeline.
  • Identify optimization challenges, apply your expertise to problem-solve, and share techniques to overcome them.
  • Help create tools and scripts to improve the art team’s efficiency.
  • Develop visual features of the game, whether that’s writing shader code, pioneering new asset creation techniques, or creating technical prototypes and mock-ups.
  • Work with team leads across various disciplines to enhance gameplay, environments, VFX and cinematic elements.
  • Ensure that assets integrate with minimal friction into the game engine, without sacrificing visual quality.
  • Provide concise, constructive feedback and solutions when identifying recurring issues/needs, documenting recommendations to improve limitations or optimal use cases in pipeline and tools.
  • Troubleshoot gameplay and architecture issues that might impact content creation and integration, and develop workflows to compensate for such limitations.

Requirements:

Must Have:

  • 6 months of experience as a Technical Artist at a game, VFX, or feature animation studio. Work experience gained through a co-op placement and/or internship is welcomed!
  • Solid understanding of the Unreal Engine development platform (including proficiency with blueprints) or Unity 3D Engine development platform equivalent.
  • Working knowledge of one or more 3D packages including modeling, texturing, rigging and IK setup, animation, scripting, and tool creation.
  • Experience with shader creation and scripting (Maya, API, and C++/# programming).
  • Programming experience with scripting languages (MEL / Python) and shading languages.
  • Strong artistic background and content development skills. This can be modeling, texturing, lighting, or any other area where you have experience.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • A self-starter attitude with excellent problem-solving skills.
  • A team-player attitude with the ability to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience working with VR and/or AR.

Benefits & Perks - What’s in it for you?:

  • A competitive base salary.
  • Comprehensive extended health and wellness benefits.
  • Generous annual vacation time and sick days.
  • Additional bonus holidays throughout the year.
  • Flexible work schedule and remote working.
  • Fully equipped onsite gym.
  • An opportunity to work on a high-profile IP.
  • The chance to be part of an experienced, high-achieving and fun team.
  • An international and diverse atmosphere.
  • The opportunity to help pave the way for the future of VR/AR gaming.