Hardsuit Labs is currently looking for a visual effects artist to join our team. You’ll use your artistic and technical skills to bring the team’s artistic vision to life!

YOU

You are extremely versatile in your craft; you can draw, animate and model with equal proficiency. You are used to working closely with the Art Director, and Content team, creating captivating visual effects. If the need arises, you can work in complete autonomy developing effects from concept to implementation.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of industry experience.
• Self-driven, passionate, creative problem solver, and a great team-first attitude.
• Experience developing particle systems and geometry based visual effects.
• Experienced with the Unreal 4 Engine effects art pipeline.
• Ability to conceptualize and create natural, sci-fi and fantastical effects, all for real-time use.
• Strong knowledge of art and animation principles.
• Strong Photoshop skills for creating effect textures for use with particle systems / animated geometry.
• Experience with the creation and of physically-based shaders.
• Experience implementing high end VFX that run efficiently on target.

PREFFERED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of 3DS, Houdini, and Substance a plus.
• Proficiency in secondary areas such as modeling, skinning, animation, or lighting.
• Passion for making and playing great games, with an awareness of current titles and industry trends.
• Strong knowledge of modern game environment development principles and techniques.
• Experience with optimization on a console project is preferred. Experience developing for Xbox One and PS4 highly desirable.
• Desire to help others and to improve art content pipelines.

About Us

Hardsuit Labs, located in Seattle, was founded in 2015 with the same goal as every other game development studio that has ever existed – to make great games. What sets us apart is the way we make that happen:

It’s all about our people.

It takes talented, driven people to make great games. Here at the Lab, we work hard to create and to maintain an environment that not only attracts those people and keeps them here, but that allows them to thrive and to do what they do best – to make great games. It’s not always as easy as it sounds, but it really is that simple.

We might as well admit it: we’re obsessive about our people and our culture here at the Lab. We believe in hiring a mix of seasoned industry veterans and talented young upstarts, but talent and shipped titles aren’t enough; we’re looking for people who bring a variety of experiences and perspectives – people who we can spend time with, and people who can navigate the unpredictable waters of modern game development as a tight-knit group.

We believe in low turnover, and take steps to guard against the “staff-up and lay-off” cycle that is so common in this industry. When we hire, we hire for the long term, and we’re unapologetically picky about it.

Our Benefits

We take our commitment to our people seriously, and we make sure that our benefits directly reflect that commitment; we’re always looking to improve quality of life for our people in any way we can.

• Medical / Dental / Vision
• Life and STD/LTD Insurance
• 401K Program
• Unlimited Vacation Time
• 9 Sick Days / 9 Holidays