Location: Work from home or from our brand-new studio in Cambridge, UK.
Level: Senior and above.
About us: Ninja Theory is a five-time Bafta award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are building the team that will help us fulfil that promise.
Your role: As part of the Insight team you will collaborate with all of the different disciplines to create exceptional quality visual effects that will help bring our creative vision to life. Your work will be incredibly varied, from visualising bio data, to dressing experimental environments, implementing assets in Unreal Engine ensuring they are both high quality and performant.
Requirements
Your skill: You will have a strong desire to push real-time VFX beyond commonly accepted standards, able to leverage both existing and new/emerging technologies in the pursuit of this.
You will have:
- Demonstrable ability to author high quality real-time visual effects.
- Experience of creating shaders/materials using a node graph.
- Good grasp of the physical movement of objects and animation timing.
- Knowledge of how to optimise effects to work with technical constraints.
- Good Unreal Engine knowledge
Your experience: As well as the above skills, you are also passionate about using your skills to help develop a project that will have a big impact on the wider scientific community
As a bonus you may also have:
- Houdini pipeline and asset creation skills
- VFX system prototyping experience
- Passion for creating experimental or abstract visual effects
Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.
We offer great pay, wide-ranging benefits and flexible working arrangements so you can focus on what matters. For those based in the studio, we offer complimentary catered lunch from our on-site pub, The Bird or Worm? We avoid hierarchy, egos and crunch, preferring trust, talent and experience to see us through. You will be part of an inclusive group of ninjas who know what it takes to succeed, and who will encourage and support you to do the same.
Our Process: We are an equal opportunity employer. Equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is a crucial and permanent part of our business strategy. To help us ensure a fully equal, diverse and inclusive working environment, we carry out anonymised screening. Our anonymised screening automatically obscures your personal information from your application and encourages a more inclusive hiring process by mitigating unconscious bias from the start.
Where possible, we kindly ask that you submit anonymised reels/portfolios to support our ED&I commitments.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a BAFTA Award winning studio in the Xbox Game Studios Group and be part of pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment.
If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be invited to complete a test as part of the recruitment process.
Please note, this advert closes on Sunday 12th December 2021.