Senior Technical Artist

Job Description

Your Platform:

Sledgehammer Games, award winning developer of several titles in the Call of Duty franchise, is looking for dedicated developers to join us as founding members of our new Toronto team. This group will partner with our global teams in Foster City, California and Melbourne, Victoria in the creation of epic content for some of the biggest games in the world. This is an opportunity to help grow and craft a AAA team from the ground up, adding new skills to your armoury while gaining the outstanding satisfaction that only comes from building something brand new. Join us on our quest to maintain and improve a balanced and a broad, inspiring studio culture!

The studio is navigating their 2nd decade of game development, focused on constant evolution, innovation and qualified risk-taking – some of the most exciting aspects. With outstanding content production and engineering teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We enjoy what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for hard-working game developers for our exciting new projects. We'd like to speak with you.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favourite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission:

As a Senior Technical Artist, will provide support building and delivering key technologies and workflows that enable artists and designers to quickly implement visual content into our games.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Acting as bridge between art and engineering
• Building tools and processes that facilitate content authoring with an emphasis on user experience, quality and efficiency
• Collaborating to improve studio tools and pipelines.
• Proactively identifying problems and proposing solutions

Player Profile:

Minimum Requirements:
• Solid understanding of one or more commercially available real-time engines (e.g. UE4, Unity, CryEngine).
• Artistic eye for creation & integration of 3D art
• Advanced understanding of modern DCC tools
• Shipped at least 2 AAA titles from start to finish on multiple platforms (e.g. PS4, Xbox-One.)
• Proficiency with Python, HLSL, GLSL

Extra Points:
• C++ experience or Computer Science degree
• Extensive portfolio with examples of professional work (e.g. art, scripts, tools, simulations, etc.)
• Blueprint or asset scripting abilities.
• Has trained or mentored others.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gq89jx-13-58-82-79-42 in your application.