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 work on an ambitious new project with a team of industry veterans aiming to create something incredible.

We are looking for a self-driven Technical Artist with solid artistic and technical skills to create beautiful and detailed work that pushes the possibilities of gameplay and storytelling on next-generation consoles. 

You’ll Own

• Liaising between heads of programming and design teams
• Researching and developing technical tools for a project
• Developing complex shaders and materials
• Supporting artists and engineers in the 3D art pipeline
• Assisting in asset performance and validation
• Solving complex technical issues during development
• Working within the limits of the game engine, curating file sizes, polygon counts and loading speeds
• Optimizing environments and establishing physics barriers
• Developing performance of frame rate and memory
• Resolving material errors and collision issues
• Monitoring the performance of the game
• Maintaining technical documentation

Your XP and Skills

• 3+ years experience in game development as a Technical Artist.
• Experienced in Unreal Engine.
• Experienced in Nanite, VSM and Lumen optimizations.
• Experienced in making and maintaining tools and materials.
• Good communication skills and the ability to help and mentor other team members.
• Participate in critiques and be open to giving and receiving feedback.
• Great organizational skills and a deadline-oriented - ability to establish scope, plan, and deliver milestones while adjusting when changes happen.
• Self motivated and able work independently as part of a fully distributed and, at times, a-sync team to meet deadlines and milestone requirements