Expert Technical Artist - Shader H/F

Ubisoft is a global leader in gaming with teams across the world creating original and memorable gaming experiences, from Assassin's Creed, Rainbow Six, to Just Dance and more. We believe diverse perspectives help both players and teams thrive. If you're passionate about innovation and pushing entertainment boundaries, join our journey and help us create the unknown !YOUR DAILY ADVENTUREThe Technical Artist works with their lead to improve the function, stability, scalability, user experience and performance of the shaders and material pipelines. They are gatekeepers of budgets and technical constraints with a focus on shaders, graphics and rendering with which they are expected to inform and guide the team. This is a key support role to provide the best tools and solutions for production.ResponsibilitiesSupport the VFX team in implementing visual effects, ensure there are no regressions when optimising, propose improvements, and create tutorials. Provide technical solutions to artistic requirements by collaborating with GPP teams on how to achieve specific visual resultsProduce and maintain shaders and complex VFXMonitor and optimize performance: PC/Consoles profiling and optimizationAct as the gatekeeper of VFX constraints, pushing for top visual quality and performance working collaboratively with Art Leads, Technical Directors and QA pipeline: explore optimization opportunities and improve production workflows (evaluating new technologies that could be integrated into the engine when appropriate)R&D: conduct tests and experimentation to propose new solutions and improvements.

You've already worked in a Technical Artist capacity alongside a VFX teamYou are comfortable with particle systems (GPU/CPU) constraintsYou've been working on performance and monitoring on a multi-platform productionYou have an aptitude for problem solving, decision making, collaboration & communication and have strong organizational skillsShader development (any shader language or node base editor) has no secret for youExperience, Knowledge and interest in multiple areas of game development:ShadersFXLightingRendering and Post ProcessesHLSLExperience with game editors and enginesand with console developmentBeing resourceful in finding technical solutions for artistic needs