Technical VFX Artist, Pokémon GO

JP - Tokyo, Japan. Posted 8 days ago

The role

This person will create performant VFX in Unity and build rapid prototypes of experimental features. They will bridge technical and creative aspects of game development by collaborating with art, design, engineering, and product teams.

What you will do

Create performant VFX in Unity while maintaining intended artistic direction.
Collaborate with art, design, engineering, and product teams to build features and solve creative problems.
Build rapid prototypes of experimental features using Unity 3D or other mobile platform tools.
Iterate on Unity 3D scene implementation to finalize product and creative requirements.
Create performant graphics shaders for beautiful visuals.
Facilitate communication and collaboration between art and engineering.
Leverage AI to accelerate prototyping, content creation, and problem-solving.

Required qualifications

3+ years as a Technical Artist or similar role creating VFX
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
Experience in Python, C#, HLSL, or similar scripting languages.
Experience in modern 3D game engines such as Unity 3D.
Knowledge of optimization and performance profiling of real-time 3D content, VFX, and pipelines for mobile platforms.
Knowledge of generative AI tools and utilization in Tech Art workflows such as prototyping and tooling.
Familiarity across multiple areas of Tech Art such as animation, graphics, pipelines and tooling, scripting gameplay, etc.
Experience in agentic AI workflows that amplify your Technical Art skills, with the ability to read, debug, and explain AI-generated work.
Professional-level English for daily verbal and written communication.

Nice to have

BS or MS degree in design, games-related or technical field.
Solid artistic skills (color, shape, light, motion).
Experience collaborating within a multi-person game studio.
Experience writing shaders (HLSL or GLSL).
Experience developing tools for artists or designers.
Fluency in Japanese.

About the company

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company. It creates, develops, publishes, and live-operates a diversified portfolio of games including Pokémon GO and MONOPOLY GO!