Senior Technical Artist

We are Mighty Koi, a studio located in the center of Warsaw. We’re actively working on an extremely ambitious indie premium (AA+) title set within an established IP. The project is a narrative-driven Third Person Action RPG that is being developed on Unreal Engine 5 and will be released on multiple platforms; PC and next gen consoles.
We are looking for a Senior Technical Artist who will join us! We are pleased to offer the opportunity to join our team, where you can develop your skills through exciting projects.
If you have relevant experience and would like to take on an exciting new challenge and feel that you would be a good fit for this role, apply here today!

Responsibilities:

• Prototyping and optimizing features and content ,
• VFX production,
• Preparing tools, scripts and pipelines for artists,
• Maintaining the production pipeline and meeting deadlines,
• Collaborating effectively with other artists, programmers, designers, Art Director, and Producer,
• Documenting tech limitations and tools,
• Maintaining the Tech Art guidelines,
• Helping to define and meeting in-game asset budges
• Optimize levels, meshes, materials, lighting, post-processes and VFX,
• Improve the performance of real-time rendering pipeline for PC and consoles.
  

Required Qualifications:

• Great technical skills
• Good knowledge of rendering pipeline
• Knowledge of 2D, 3D and animation packages and pipelines
• Good Knowledge Unreal Engine
• Knowledge materials logic, pipeline and best practices
• Knowledge UE4 VFX logic, pipeline and best practices
• Ability to fast prototype TA features, solutions and pipelines
• Ability to integrate graphical features into gameplay mechanics
• Familiarity with optimization techniques, profiling and real time performance
• Great communication skills, so you can teach and mentor artists and collaborate with other teams
• Familiarity with physics logic or physical engines is a big plus
• Familiarity with Houdini
• Coding in C++, HLSL, Python language
• Very good knowledge of physically based rendering (PBR)

What we offer:

• Play a pivotal role in shaping an up and coming studio that plans to be creatively involved in many great things (not just video games!).
• A competitive salary (different types of contracts including contract of employment) that will be adjusted accordingly to your skill and experience. (16000 net)
• Flexible working hours.
• Private medical care.
• MultiSport card.
• A cozy office (Dog-friendly!) in the very city center of Warsaw with an actual garden! Hybrid work is possible.
• Chillout zone, tabletop RPG sessions, board game evenings.
• Dress code? We hope you have a few geeky t-shirts!

If you think you’re a match, be sure to send us your CV to this email sviatlana.kozyrava@mighty-koi.com!

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