Expert Technical Artist - Shader at Ubisoft — France

About The Role

YOUR DAILY ADVENTURE

The Technical Artist works with their lead to improve the function, stability, scalability, user experience and performance of the shaders and material pipelines. They are gatekeepers of budgets and technical constraints with a focus on shaders, graphics and rendering with which they are expected to inform and guide the team. This is a key support role to provide the best tools and solutions for production.

Responsibilities

Support the VFX team in implementing visual effects, ensure there are no regressions when optimising, propose improvements, and create tutorials. Provide technical solutions to artistic requirements by collaborating with GPP teams on how to achieve specific visual results
Produce and maintain shaders and complex VFX
Monitor and optimize performance: PC/Consoles profiling and optimization
Act as the gatekeeper of VFX constraints, pushing for top visual quality and performance working collaboratively with Art Leads, Technical Directors and QA
Pipeline: explore optimization opportunities and improve production workflows (evaluating new technologies that could be integrated into the engine when appropriate)
R&D: conduct tests and experimentation to propose new solutions and improvements.
You’ve already worked in a Technical Artist capacity alongside a VFX team
You are comfortable with particle systems (GPU/CPU) constraints
You’ve been working on performance and monitoring on a multi-platform production
You have an aptitude for problem solving, decision making, collaboration & communication and have strong organizational skills
Shader development (any shader language or node base editor) has no secret for you
Experience, Knowledge and interest in multiple areas of game development:
Shaders
FX
Lighting
Rendering and Post Processes
HLSL
Experience with game editors and engines and with console development
Being resourceful in finding technical solutions for artistic needs