Craft: Games Design & Production
Technical Artist - Shared Tech We are looking for Technical Artists to join our team based in Stockholm, Berlin, London, or Barcelona.
Your role within our Kingdom You will be part of a dynamic core team of technical artists and programmers, working on improving and supporting King's largest games.
As a technical artist, you will be a key member of the group, helping solve problems, design and optimize features and workflows, build tools, support content creators and push boundaries.
You will work closely with the different crafts within King's dynamic game teams, providing support, assistance, and drive quality for key areas of the projects.
You will also be part of the wider Technical Art Community at King, a unique environment where we share and support each other to achieve our full potential.
At King, we value our personal growth very highly, and as such, you will receive plenty of support to focus on the areas you want to master.
At King, we believe in making the world more playful, and we carefully balance change, growth, and evolution with providing an amazing experience to our hundreds of millions of players by supporting our games day-to-day.
Skills to Create Thrills Good knowledge of one major 3D software package (Maya preferred)Good knowledge of 2D creation software (Photoshop, Illustrator)Familiarity with game engine workflows and a good understanding of real-time rendering processes and pipelines (experience with GLSL/HLSL)Good scripting ability (e.g., Pymel, Python API)Proven track record of both artistic and technical creativity with a real passion for solving problemsPassionate about optimizing game content for memory and performanceDesire to push visual quality or streamline workflowsExperience in creating various game content (animations/modelling/etc.
)A proactive communicator, willing to give and receive constructive feedbackGood organizational skillsProactive in learning and developing your skillsAn online portfolio demonstrating all aspects of your skills would be appreciated. Tasty Bonus Skills Experience with custom game enginesUnderstanding of GLSL or similar shading languagePrevious experience from creating midcore and/or mobile gamesExperience with procedural content generationExperience of creating AAA console or mobile titlesExperienced in working in an Agile/Scrum environmentKnowledge of typical development languages (C++, C#, Python, Rust)Knowledge of mathematics and physics (vector calculus, linear algebra)Shared Tech Technical art is a part of Game Production in King's Shared Tech division - we operate across all games at King, supporting them with unified tools, workflows, and all aspects of content creation.
In this job, you will be exposed to a multitude of teams, games, and professions.
This is your opportunity to gather experience in all areas of game production and achieve impactful results across an array of games and a vast number of players.
Life at King We believe that great gaming experiences happen when they are developed by working in small, autonomous creative teams that control the whole process - from idea to amazing game.
Our close connection with the player community gets us instant feedback and enables us to deliver truly magical moments.
We value your free time and your need to refuel, relax and find inspiration - by playing games with your colleagues, being at home with your family or going to the gym or out for a run.
Work can be flexibly arranged between working remotely or in the office.
That's how we stay creative.
Want to join our Kingdom? The brilliant experience we give our players comes from the diversity and experience of our people.
A great Saga needs all kinds of Heroes - that's why we hire all sorts of talent!
About King King is the game developer behind the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as mobile game hits including Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, and Pet Rescue.
Candy Crush is the top-grossing franchise in US app stores, a position it has held for the last two years, and King's games are being played by 245 million monthly active users as of Q3 2021.
King, which is part of the Activision Blizzard group since its acquisition in 2016, employs nearly 2,000 people in game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, and Berlin, and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Malta.
A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes Making games is fun.
Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace great.
We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life.
Truth is, we simply cannot expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.
A great saga needs all sorts of heroes.
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