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Environment Artist / World Builder
Make worlds!
We're looking for a talented artist who has extensive experience with organic modeling and sculpting. Work with a small and experienced team (Cory, Max, Charlie) to make surreal, natural environments for a new optimistic sci-fi universe. You'll be exploring a completely new art style, never before-seen in a video game.
Work closely with our tech team to develop a new art style, drawing inspiration from sources outside of traditional video games (especially important for this game, details to follow). Work very closely with the design team to support the gameplay, as every prop, model and material affects the game experience: every detail matters.
Work in our San Francisco office (SOMA) or remotely from anywhere. The team is a mix of in-office and distributed (with most being the latter).
We're looking for a talented artist who has extensive experience with organic modeling and sculpting. Work with a small and experienced team (Cory, Max, Charlie) to make surreal, natural environments for a new optimistic sci-fi universe. You'll be exploring a completely new art style, never before-seen in a video game.
Work closely with our tech team to develop a new art style, drawing inspiration from sources outside of traditional video games (especially important for this game, details to follow). Work very closely with the design team to support the gameplay, as every prop, model and material affects the game experience: every detail matters.
Work in our San Francisco office (SOMA) or remotely from anywhere. The team is a mix of in-office and distributed (with most being the latter).
REQUIREMENTS
- Great portfolio
- Experience with organic modeling/sculpting
- Proficient in Substance Designer/Painter
- Proficient in 3ds Max
- Working familiarity with Unity
- Industry experience as an environment artist and world builder
- Strong artistic skill and ability to adapt to different visual styles
- Optimize and work within the performance limitations of current platforms
- Proactive with a can-do attitude
- Team player and good communication skills
- Availability to go on global company retreats
Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We want to make games for the world. We believe the best way to do that is to hire and support the most talented and creative people of diverse backgrounds to work together. It’s also why we give $2,000 every year to each person to spend on self-improvement through conferences, books, classes, etc. It’s also why we have no middle management and let people choose what to work on and how. We are proud of our diversity and are excited to make our team even better.
Art Lead (new title)
Work with an experienced game team (Max, Charlie & others) to lead the artistic development of a new unannounced title. This is quite a new direction for the team and the gameplay is quite developed and rock-solid (not Subnautica-related).
Work with and oversee concept artists, environment artists and game artists to develop and create art in a unique new style. Some of the game's art style has already been developed by the team and studio Art Director (Cory), but there is a lot more visually to develop. We are also collaborating with an exciting new partner to create a game that could make a real impact.
Work in our San Francisco office (SOMA) or remotely from anywhere.
Work with and oversee concept artists, environment artists and game artists to develop and create art in a unique new style. Some of the game's art style has already been developed by the team and studio Art Director (Cory), but there is a lot more visually to develop. We are also collaborating with an exciting new partner to create a game that could make a real impact.
Work in our San Francisco office (SOMA) or remotely from anywhere.
REQUIREMENTS
- Submit a portfolio with your application.
- Proficient in Photoshop (for paintovers)
- Proficient in some 3D software
- Game industry experience as an Art Lead or Art Director
- Strong artistic skill and ability to adapt to different visual styles
- Able to make effective paintovers to refine art quickly
- Problem-solving and open mind
- Proactive with a can-do attitude
- Enjoys working with a variety of minds - design, technical and those from other creative industries
- Team player with good interpersonal skills and communication
- Availability to go on global company retreats
Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We want to make games for the world. We believe the best way to do that is to hire and support the most talented and creative people of diverse backgrounds to work together. It’s also why we give $2,000 every year to each person to spend on self-improvement through conferences, books, classes, etc. It’s also why we have no middle management and let people choose what to work on and how. We are proud of our diversity and are excited to make our team even better.
Systems Programmer
As a systems programmer on the Subnautica team, your primary responsibility will be to help the team ship high-quality software on multiple platforms (PC, Xbox One, PS4).
An ideal candidate has experience shipping games on a variety of platforms, preferably with strong Unity and C# experience. The ability to tackle a wide range of problems - architecting key systems, performance analysis and optimization, maintaining editor tools - is a must.
We have a distributed team, self direction and good communication are important skills for success in this environment. This is a permanent, full-time position. You can work from our central office in San Francisco, or anywhere in the world (like many of our team members).
REQUIREMENTS
- 5+ years experience shipping games on a variety of platforms (or equivalent)
- C# programming experience
- Familiarity with Unity
- Ability to optimize and work within the performance limitations of current platforms
- Team player with good communication skills
- Availability to go on global company retreats
Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We want to make games for the world. We believe the best way to do that is to hire and support the most talented and creative people of diverse backgrounds to work together. It’s also why we give $2,000 every year to each person to spend on self-improvement through conferences, books, classes, etc. It’s also why we have no middle management and let people choose what to work on and how. We are proud of our diversity and are excited to make our team even better.
Who We Are
A long time ago, we created the Half-Life mod Natural Selection. We helped pioneer the “early access” model when we started bundling pre-orders with Overgrowth (now Humble). We created our own technology (Spark) and used it to build Natural Selection 2 for Steam.
We recently released Subnautica which is our biggest game to date (5M+ copies, Steam, Epic, Discord, XB1, PS4). Shipping early and often is in our blood.
How We Work
We hang out in Slack. We meet regularly via videoconferencing. No one is micro-managed, team members are encouraged to be self-directed and apply their creativity to our projects. We also have regular full-team retreats in sunny gorgeous places all over the world. We rent a sweet house, fly the whole team there and spend a week swimming, gaming, drinking wine and giving micro-talks (similar to these).
Who you are
Our ideal candidate is passionate, self-motivated, versatile and eager to learn new skills. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate on all aspects of the games we’re creating. The team works together to set the high level goals for each milestone, then each person determines how they can best contribute to achieving the objective. This type of approach doesn’t work for everyone, but for us, it’s thrilling.
No suitable listings?
If we are not currently hiring for in your area of expertise, please feel free to send us your resume and some examples of your work. We’ll be happy to keep your information on file and potentially reach out when the need arises.
Thanks for your interest.
Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.