UI Technical Artist

Company Description

Ubisoft’s 19,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their commitment and talent have brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come. Ubisoft is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves. If you are excited about solving game-changing challenges, cutting edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of entertainment, we invite you to join our journey and help us create the unknown.

Job Description

Job summary - 

Role combines the responsibilities of bridging the gap between creative vision and technical execution. The role will focus on procedural content creation, Asset integration, while ensuring assets meet the highest technical standards, are optimized, and align with art guidelines. The position requires proficiency in problem-solving and a deep understanding of integrating assets into Game engines. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Asset Optimization: Ensure art assets are optimized for performance, quality, and scalability, while maintaining a balance with visual fidelity. 
• Collaboration Across Departments: Work closely with art, technical, and design teams to ensure seamless integration of procedural assets, 3D assets into the game engine. 
• Technical Support for Game Design Teams: Provide troubleshooting and support related to asset integration, simulations, and performance. 
• Troubleshoot Technical Issues: Identify technical problems in asset integration and pipeline development, and provide solutions to improve workflow efficiency. 
• Custom Tool Development: Develop custom tools for various DCC (Digital Content Creation) software, such as 3DSMax, Maya, and Houdini, to optimize the pipeline. 
• Build Intuitive Interfaces and Tools: Design user-friendly tools that allow non-technical team members to effectively leverage procedural assets within the game engine. 
• Develop & Maintain Procedural Asset Workflows: Design and maintain efficient procedural asset workflows for simulations. 
• Documentation: Create clear documentation for processes, tools, and workflows to ensure smooth knowledge transfer across teams. 
• Implement Innovative Solutions: Drive efficiency and visual quality improvements for procedural art assets and game systems. 
• Performance Optimization: Familiarity with profiling tools to identify and resolve performance issues in real-time environments, addressing memory usage, frame rates, and asset loading times (is plus). 
• Training and Support: Provide training to artists, designers, and other team members on related tools within the design pipeline. 

Qualifications

• 3D Software: Familiarity with at least one major 3D software such as 3DS Max, Maya, or Blender. 
• Scripting: Knowledge of Python, Maxscript (C# is plus). 
• Problem Solving: Strong problem-solving skills to address technical issues. 
• Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with artists, designers, and technical teams. 
• Houdini : Experience with Houdini and node-based procedural workflows for creating simulations and dynamic content is a plus. 
• Visual Aesthetic Understanding: A strong eye for visual aesthetics, ensuring procedural content aligns with the overall game style and maintains visual coherence. 

Additional Information

• International collaboration game projects & AAA IP’s. 
• Access to cutting-edge hardware. 
• Experience using hottest internally developed game engines. 
• Proficient and fun-to-work-with colleagues.