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Senior Technical Artist

2 months ago

Chicago, United States Light & Wonder Full time
Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it's all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Technical Artist to serve as a primary point of Unity expertise, and to acts as a bridge between game studio artists and engineers to ensure that the player-facing vision for our games is achieved. A strong familiarity with Unity and C# will be required to manage and improve the content creation pipeline, coach game artists on asset implementation, and optimize the performance of effects-heavy content. Other duties include staying on the cutting edge of Unity's many features, and the mentoring and guiding of more junior technical artists.

Essential Job Functions:

  • Implement art assets in Unity

  • Identify and solve technical issues related to the art pipeline

  • Mentoring of more junior technical artists on the team

  • Provide artists with technical feedback to ensure the creation of optimized assets

  • Document and evangelize best practices

  • Profiling game performance and applying art optimization techniques

  • Creation of tools to assist in the artistic pipeline

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

  • Bachelor of Arts in art, animation, computer science, or equivalent experience

  • At least six years' experience in game development

  • At least four games shipped using Unity

Required Experience:

  • Unity expertise, including Prefabs, Particle Systems, and Materials

  • Strong problem-solving skills

  • Fluency in C#, with a working knowledge of object-oriented programming

  • Working knowledge of 2D graphic software (Photoshop preferred)

  • An understanding of artistic concepts and pipeline

  • Working knowledge of animation state machines

  • Familiarity with motion graphics & compositing editors (After Effects preferred)

  • Familiarity with 3D animation & rendering applications (3DS Max preferred)

  • Working knowledge of versioning software (Perforce preferred)

  • Experience working with a team under tight deadlines

  • Self-motivated and able to work on multiple projects with minimal direction

  • Excellent organizational skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Working knowledge of MS Office, specifically Excel and Outlook

Bonus XP:

  • Experience leading or mentoring, especially other tech artists

  • Proficient in Photoshop and After Effects

  • Experience working in the slots and gambling industry

  • Experience writing art tools

  • Experience writing shaders (Cg preferred)

  • Experience with technical documentation

  • Experience with 3D modeling and animation

  • Experience with 2D skeletal animation systems (Spine and Unity 2d Animations preferred)

  • Understanding of UI / UX principles across various platforms

  • Fluency in other coding languages, especially JavaScript, MAXScript, and C++

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

LNW and its affiliates (collectively, "LNW") are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain LNW employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure LNW complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, LNW requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with LNW (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to LNW conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.


This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

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