Technical Artist Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 3 years of experience using Unity.
• At least 3 years of game development experience with significant technical art or tools ownership.
• Degree in Art, Animation, Computer Science, or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to provide and receive feedback.
• Unity experience, including familiarity with prefab workflows and the asset import pipeline.
• Foundational 3D pipeline knowledge, including modeling, UVs, textures, and basic rigging and animation concepts.
• Basic scripting familiarity; C# is preferred.
• Comfort debugging and clearly communicating issues.
• Portfolio showing real-time 3D work and/or tooling or pipeline contributions.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Nevada Gaming registration if applicable.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Python or MEL scripting.

Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality animations for characters, environments, UI, and VFX using animation principles.
• Encourage and generate creative ideas and solutions with the team.
• Manage time effectively to deliver art and animations to the required quality, specification, and schedule.
• Design and maintain production-ready Unity pipelines, including asset import and validation, shader systems, animation pipelines, build and content packaging, and performance tooling.
• Deliver advanced Unity editor tools for batch processing, dependency management, automated scene checks, and performance validation.
• Build optimized shader and material frameworks and author guidelines that balance quality and performance.
• Partner with engineers to integrate tools into project workflows and version control, including Perforce and Git.
• Own complex character and animation technical workflows, including rig standards, retargeting strategies, compression settings, and runtime integration.
• Create optimized texture and layout solutions, including atlasing strategies, channel packing, and streaming or format guidance as applicable.
• Use 3D animation software such as Maya, Blender, and Unity.
• Create efficient 3D rigging, weighting, and animation files optimized for Unity.
• Design optimized texture sheets for 3D assets implemented in Unity.
• Profile content and drive optimization initiatives with measurable outcomes in memory, frame time, and load time.
• Lead cross-discipline problem solving, propose tradeoffs, and de-risk technical art deliverables.
• Mentor Level I–II technical artists and contribute to standards, documentation, and review processes.