Senior Technical Artist

Are you a talented technical artist with a passion to push projects to new levels? Would you like to work at a company where you’re given the time and freedom to innovate?

Why Goose Byte

Do you wish that you could spend your work hours actually making games? We're offering that low-overhead-indie-team-productivity along with all of the stability and I-can-sleep-at-night big studio perks.

We're cultivating an inclusive, high performance, talent dense team where collaboration is key and we won't be tolerating talented jerks. High integrity is important and we nurture an environment built around the concepts of freedom, inclusivity, respect, sustainability, and trust.

As a Senior Technical Artist, you will be relied upon to deliver a high standard of visual quality and performance. You will use your technical skills to bring the project vision to life while mitigating the risks and challenges of production. You will be in charge of creating pipelines and disseminating pertinent information to the rest of the team. You will be trusted with a wide array of features touching every aspect of what Unreal Engine 5 has to offer.

In this position, you will be relied upon to work closely, and build strong relationships with, all directors and team members across the design, programming, and art departments. As a senior team member, you will need to be proactive and independent to be successful at Goose Byte.

Our First Project

For our first project we’re making an open world survival crafting game that focuses on exploration and creativity over violence and combat, finding a unique space in a crowded genre to bring something exciting and different to players.

We’re creating our own IP, building on our love of science fiction, worldbuilding, and unconventional games, and as an indie studio we have full creative freedom and control.

Using our experience from leading AAA open world and action adventure games we’re thinking practically and pragmatically about our choices, from technology, to scope of features, and where to place our bets for quality and innovation.

There are lots of challenges ahead but we are setting our own ambitions and expectations, leveraging our scale to be decisive, move quickly, and make the game better every day.

Your Opportunities

You are definitely a match if you are excited by these opportunities…

• Focus on game dev, first and foremost. Always know the next three tasks you want to tackle
• Assure the quality of your work is consistent week by week
• When approaching your work, put yourself in the shoes of a designer, a programmer, and the player to better understand how your work will be used
• As a Senior Technical Artist you will work closely with the directors of all disciplines
• Strategize and execute on plans to increase the quality of our visuals
• Invest time and research into improving the quality of life of the Art team
• Help scope and validate feature requirements
• Be the in-between for Art and Programming
• Support the Art, Design and Programming teams with any technical needs
• Create and maintain technical documentation for various tools for the project
• Stress test features or functionalities and devise a best course of action
• Develop workflows and Art pipelines
• Ensure all pertinent information gets disseminated to the rest of the Art team
• Solve complex technical issues during development
• Assess and investigate any performance bottlenecks
• Be the pivotal figure for all optimization efforts
• Work together with programmers on character systems
• Research and develop all materials needed for the project
• Manage your own time and schedule autonomously
• Display a keen interest in all upcoming Unreal tools and any third-party tools that could speed up or improve production
• Be part of a small team and new studio working on a new Intellectual Property. This means being a key part of the culture, and helping to shape the identity of the team, the game, and the IP

Values

Each colleague that joins our studio is equally important to its success. As such, all of our benefits are available to everyone, effective from their first day with us. Being transparent about this equality and how we value our employees is a key part of who we are.  

Freedom

• Hybrid Remote work - we primarily work from home with provided high-end hardware and collaboration tools. We meet once a week in our Montreal office for collaborative work and socializing.
• Flexible schedule
• $1,000 yearly employee lifestyle fund - use this to stay healthy, social, comfortable or productive

Inclusivity 

• Equal opportunity and equal pay employer
• Team building and social events in Montreal
• Zero tolerance policy on harassment, bullying and discrimination
• No talented jerks

Respect

• Competitive base salaries for all jobs
• Low admin and manager overhead - No boring recurring meetings
• An uncapped profitability bonus scheme that shares studio profits with everyone
• We offer everyone dedicated high end hardware to maximise productivity

Sustainability

• Commitment to a Crunch-free environment
• Competitive Group Insurance Plan (Healthcare, Vision, Dental, Life Insurance)
• Retirement fund - We match 50% of all employee RRSP contributions
• Studio shuts down one week for Winter Holidays

Trust

• Unlimited paid vacation for all employees - this means 5 weeks minimum
• Unlimited sick days / Family days / Flexi days
• All benefits start day one, for all employees

Get On Our Radar

We value diverse backgrounds and fresh perspectives. We hire based on future potential, not only your past experiences.

For a Senior Technical Artist, we expect you to be independent and able to manage your time in accomplishing tasks. You are able to take direction and incorporate that direction into your work. You are proactive and communicate well with the rest of the team.

The main technologies we use at the moment are:

• Unreal Engine 5
• GitHub
• Google Workspace

If you already have skills here it's a great bonus! 

So...

If you made it here and this sounds like a great fit for you, then what are you waiting for!