Art Performance Engineer

We're looking for a talented and passionate Art Tech Performance to join Wildlife's Graphics Engineering & Tech Performance team. 

As an Art Performance Engineer, you'll participate directly in the game development of multiple titles, focusing on identifying, designing, and implementing solutions to improve the technical performance of the art inside the game engine. You will partner with tech artists, artists, game engineers, and graphics engineers in the day-to-day to implement the required performance improvements. 

We know that our work has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, comfortable in a "take the initiative" environment, love solving problems, and can thrive in a fast and growing business.

• Be part of a cross-product team, directly contributing to feature development and guidance;
• Partner with colleagues to build, maintain and train best practice optimization guidelines for visual artists and UI engineers;
• Provide the team with an art performance strategy that supports the team's delivery goals and aligns with the overall Wildlife's' performance metrics strategy;
• Be part of a highly-skilled quality team, owning initiatives to improve performance processes, metrics, and tooling.
• Assess the technical performance of our games, identifying improvement opportunities mainly regarding art and scenes optimizations;
• Spend up to 20% of the time researching and developing new techniques for improving art technical performance and productivity;
• Support tech artists, artists, and engineers on defining best practices of assets and scene configuration, and support the game artists relating to the graphics and performance tools usage;
• Share the produced knowledge to the entire company through documentation, mentoring, and practical workshops;
• Write reports and documentation about complex topics in a clear and concise manner;

• Experience working as a Tech Artist or Graphics Programmer in mobile games dealing with Unity engine profiling and assets/scenes optimizations;
• Good ability at interpreting and analyzing different kinds of data regarding game performance;
• Experience working  with 3D software (Blender, Maya, or 3DMax);
• Experience working with image tools (Photoshop, Gimp, Krita, Substance Design, etc.);
• Excellent communication skills regarding art and engineering audiences;
• Knowledge of VFX, Rigging, Animation, Environment, and art pipelines;
• Good Programming skills for scripts, tools/editors, and shaders (at least C# and HLSL);
• Good in structuring and organizing content, but also in documenting everything and making it very accessible for everyone;
• Professional oral and written communication skills in English.

• Knowledge of Unity render pipelines, such as Unity built-in, URP, and SRP;
• Experience specifying and developing tools for artists (python, C#, Unity editor);
• Familiarity with agile development processes.

• You’re passionate about game development and know how to ensure its quality and performance;
• You’re motivated by building up tools and is aware of its artist-friendly usability;
• You’re creative when solving problems and is continuously seeking improvements for processes and solutions;
• You can communicate clearly with your team and the company to identify issues and demands;
• You have the autonomy to recognize the current and new priorities, evaluating the impact of their outcomes in the final result.

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Today, we have offices in Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, and the United States. Here, we create games that will excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come!

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We're committed to providing accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.