Senior VFX Artist

Cold Symmetry
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March 3, 2025
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Cold Symmetry, creators of the acclaimed indie title Mortal Shell, is expanding. As we grow and strive to produce even better games, we remain committed to a culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We’re looking for like-minded individuals—ambitious, creative risk-takers who pour their heart and soul into crafting games they love and want to play.

As a fully remote studio, we welcome candidates from around the globe who are exceptional at what they do. Competence, resourcefulness, extreme ownership in your area of expertise, and a relentless drive to achieve are what we value.

Join us as we embark on an ambitious new project with a team of industry veterans aiming to create something incredible.

We are currently seeking a Senior VFX Artist to join our team on a contract basis. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a small, highly collaborative environment, can balance hands-on VFX work with technical problem-solving, and can take initiative to solve challenges and support the team as needs evolve. A major aspect of this role will involve working with Unreal Engine 5 systems, including in-depth blueprint work, so strong technical expertise in this area is essential.

If you’re a technical VFX artist who thrives in a small, hands-on team and is excited by the opportunity to make a significant impact, we’d love to hear from you.

 

You'll Own

  • Creating high-quality real-time visual effects in Unreal Engine that enhance gameplay and world-building.
  • Ownership of VFX pipeline tasks, optimizing workflows and tools to support the team.
  • Conducting R&D into new techniques, tools, and shader development to push visual fidelity.
  • Working closely with designers, engineers, and artists to integrate effects that serve gameplay and narrative needs.
  • Helping clean up and refine existing VFX assets and pipelines for better efficiency.
  • Collaborating with the team to solve technical challenges, troubleshoot issues, and ensure smooth integration of VFX assets.

 

Your XP and Skills

  • Senior-level experience in real-time VFX, preferably in Unreal Engine.
  • Strong technical background with shader development, materials, and Niagara.
  • A proactive, problem-solving mindset with a team-first attitude—someone who takes ownership and helps others.
  • Experience balancing artistic vision with technical constraints in a game development environment.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks and self-manage in a fast-moving production cycle.
  • Some leadership experience or a willingness to grow into a leadership role.
  • Experience in scripting or tool development to improve VFX workflows.
  • Previous experience in a small or mid-sized game studio where flexibility and wearing multiple hats is key.
About 
Cold Symmetry

Cold Symmetry is the studio that created Mortal Shell - a successful indie title crafted by a small passionate team. As we grow bigger and aim to produce better games, we want to preserve our culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We want to fill our team with people like us who set ambitious goals, are not afraid to take creative risks, and pour their heart and soul into making a game they love, and ultimately, would love to play.

We're looking to expand both our core team and our network of contractors. We are a distributed studio and all of our positions are fully remote. We are considering candidates from anywhere in the world as long as you're really good at what you do. What matters to us is that you're competent, talented, resourceful, take extreme ownership in your specialized area, and have a burning desire to get things done.

If this describes you we'd like to talk.

Featured Game
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Mortal Shell 2 is a standalone sequel to Mortal Shell that significantly expands on the original. Explore a dense, open world filled with dark secrets, strange companions, and loathsome foes. Combat is fast-paced and fluid with more weapons, shells, and abilities to match any playstyle. The shells themselves contain new secrets with extensive stories and unique powers to uncover.

Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. As the remains of humanity wither and rot, zealous foes fester in the ruins. They spare no mercy, with survival demanding superior awareness, precision and instincts. Track down hidden sanctums of devout followers and discover your true purpose.

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