Technical Artist, Pokémon GO

Job Description

Niantic is seeking a Technical Artist to join the Pokémon GO team in San Francisco. The Technical Artist will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build features and solve creative problems, leveraging their technical and creative expertise to develop best-in-class game features.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with art, design, engineering, and product teams.
• Build rapid prototypes using Unity 3D or other mobile platform tools.
• Iterate on Unity 3D scene implementation.
• Create performant graphics shaders.
• Facilitate communication between art and engineering.

Requirements:

• 3+ years as a Technical Artist or similar role.
• Experience in Python, C#, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience in modern 3D game engines such as Unity 3D.
• Knowledge of optimization and performance profiling for mobile platforms.
• Familiarity across multiple areas of Tech Art.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment.
• Experience working on cross-functional teams.

The role offers:

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits