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Cold Symmetry, creators of the acclaimed indie title Mortal Shell, is expanding.

Description

Cold Symmetry, creators of the acclaimed indie title Mortal Shell, is expanding. As we grow and strive to produce even better games, we remain committed to a culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We’re looking for like-minded individuals—ambitious, creative risk-takers who pour their heart and soul into crafting games they love and want to play.

As a fully remote studio, we welcome candidates from around the globe who are exceptional at what they do. Competence, resourcefulness, extreme ownership in your area of expertise, and a relentless drive to achieve are what we value.

Join us as we work on an ambitious new project with a team of industry veterans aiming to create something incredible.

We are looking for a self-driven Technical Artist with solid artistic and technical skills to create beautiful and detailed work that pushes the possibilities of gameplay and storytelling on next-generation consoles.

You’ll Own

  • Liaising between heads of programming and design teams

  • Researching and developing technical tools for a project

  • Developing complex shaders and materials

  • Supporting artists and engineers in the 3D art pipeline

  • Assisting in asset performance and validation

  • Solving complex technical issues during development

  • Working within the limits of the game engine, curating file sizes, polygon counts and loading speeds

  • Optimizing environments and establishing physics barriers

  • Developing performance of frame rate and memory

  • Resolving material errors and collision issues

  • Monitoring the performance of the game

  • Maintaining technical documentation

Your XP and Skills

  • 3+ years experience in game development as a Technical Artist.

  • Experienced in Unreal Engine.

  • Good communication skills and the ability to help and mentor other team members.

  • Participate in critiques and be open to giving and receiving feedback.

  • Great organizational skills and a deadline-oriented - ability to establish scope, plan, and deliver milestones while adjusting when changes happen.

  • Self motivated and able work independently as part of a fully distributed and, at times, a-sync team to meet deadlines and milestone requirements