Senior VFX Artist
If you’re looking to make the best co-op games in the world, you’ve come to the right place. We're proud to have some of the best game makers and collaborators in the industry within our four walls. What's more, we're a fun bunch of game developers, who love to indulge in our passion for video games together. Our games are not for everyone. Are they for you?
We are now looking for a Senior VFX Artist
Arrowhead is now looking for a talented senior artist within the field of visual effects to join our growing studio. As a senior VFX artist you will be responsible for creating visuals that ensure a feast for the eyes in our game: Helldivers 2! As a senior VFX artist at Arrowhead, you will have a lot of freedom and autonomy to plan your own days. Together with the different feature teams you will find out what types of effects are needed and together with your feature team you will be responsible for exploring the best ways of implementing the effects. Depending on the type of effect, you will need to adapt your approach to creating and planning your work.
Who you are:
To be a great fit at Arrowhead you are the sort of person who values open and honest teamwork. You take responsibility to communicate and deliver on your goals, and raise any issues you think go unnoticed. At Arrowhead we put a great deal of effort into improving teams and to encourage each other to grow as people, as well as game developers. This means being open to feedback on both a personal and professional level in order to perform better within your team. One of the most important aspects is to be truly passionate about making a great and kickass video game.
Especially, as a Senior VFX artist your communication between disciplines and feature teams is key to the success of the role.
What you'll do
- Work with feature teams to implement different effects
- Own the content creation pipeline for different particle effects
- Together with your team, plan work to meet requirements and deadlines
- Deliver effects to the requested level; mockup, alpha or polish
- Iterate on effects depending on feedback
Our requirements
- Ability to create high quality and performant effects. Taking them from start to finish, including texturing, materials, meshes, animation and hooking it up.
- Ability to create materials using a node based system
- Experience creating VFX for realistic style game projects
- Basic understanding of 3D modeling
- Strong sense of movement, impact and form within visual effects
- Actively interested in debugging and performance tooling to verify your particle effects behave as they should and are performant.
Bonus qualifications
- Experience using Houdini, EmberGen, FumeFX
- Experience using Substance Designer
- Experience using procedural workflows
- Experience writing HLSL
How to apply
If you think that this position matches your background and skills, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV in English as soon as possible. We ask that your application always include relevant work samples or a link to your portfolio.
We interview candidates continuously and hire when we find a good fit.
Practical Information
Scope: Full-time: 40 hours per week with initial 6 month probation period.
Location: Office first, hybrid solution possible. You need to be eligble to work in Sweden.
We are a pet friendly office! You can expect to find dogs and occasionally some cats around.
What we offer
Arrowhead Game Studios is a growing team of about 100+ people, best known for our co-op titles. Despite our size, we remain a friendly and down to earth bunch, who love to indulge in our passion for video games together.
Located in a newly built, custom-tailored offices on the Hammarby Kaj waterfront, we enjoy everything Stockholm has to offer. A thriving game dev scene, along with all types of activities are immediately available on our doorstep.
Our talented developers are crucial to our success, therefore we put a lot of emphasis in creating and maintaining a prosperous culture. We’re committed to open and transparent communication. Your ideas are welcomed, valued, appreciated - the ceiling for creative discussions is high.
We also have numerous work benefits for all our employees. You can read about them here!
- Locations
- Stockholm
- Employment type
- Full-time
Work smarter, not harder.
At Arrowhead, we strive to hire people smarter than ourselves because that's how we evolve; both as individuals and as a company.
Our talented developers are crucial to our success, therefore we put a lot of emphasis in creating and maintaining a prosperous culture.
We’re committed to open and transparent communication. Your ideas are welcomed, valued, appreciated - the ceiling for creative discussions is high.
Arrowhead's Perks & Benefits
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Paid Vacation
Working at Arrowhead entitles you to 30 days of paid vacation each year.
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Massages at Work
Professional massage sessions are available at the office every other week
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Pet Friendly
At Arrowhead we love pets. If your pet is friendly, well behaved and housetrained, we'd love to see them around the studio from time to time.
Stockholm
About Arrowhead Game Studios
Arrowhead Games Studios is an exciting company, dedicated to creating intensely thrilling and hilarious game experiences.
Through games as a medium, we are on a mission to cure loneliness and build bridges, one friendly-fire co-op session at a time.
We are a value driven company that strives to become the best co-op studio in the world.
"A game for everyone is a game for no one."
Senior VFX Artist
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