Total 4 job vacancies by Ubisoft

The Technical Designer will create and implement complex technical and/or system design elements to assist in the creation of the game. Acting as a technical reference for team members, they will serve as a bridge between the tech and design teams and provide support whenever necessary.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement the technical elements of a game feature in with technical directors, programmers, and colleagues from other job families.
• Contribute to data optimization and validation by ensuring that colleagues comply with the technical standards and keep within budget constraints.
• Act as a technical expert on a specific topic and oversee tools and documentation, provide technical assistance, and define and promote best practices.
• Take part in advanced data debugging throughout production.
• Periodically provide feedback to design technical directors, including solutions to technical issues and suggestions to improve tools and methods, bugs, etc.
• Help test new features and tools before they are deployed to the rest of the team.
• Carry out production tasks supporting the game or level design and rapid prototype the gameplay features according to the design standards.
• Design and implement more complex, abstract, technically challenging, or game-wide design elements in the game.

A VFX Artist is responsible for creating a wide range of high-quality visual effects aligned with the game’s artistic vision and utilizing the technical possibilities of the game engine. The VFX Artist works collaboratively with game designers and artists to support gameplay and game environments with special effects including particle effects, dynamic simulations, and shader effects.

The main and routine tasks of the VFX Artist are to:

• Understand the overall art direction and creative vision to prioritize visual effects;
• Create environmental, gameplay, and cinematic effects;
• Work within technical constraints to ensure that effects are functional;
• Participate in the integration of your VFX into the game engine.
• Collaborate with other game developers in other job disciplines such as Production, Engineering, Art, Lighting, and others.
• Contribute to the improvement of the overall game by providing feedback to the team and use their feedback to iterate on the lighting set up.
• Stay up to date on current trends, best practices, and latest technologies in your field of expertise
• Document and share VFX knowledge and best practices.

A Lighting Artist plays a key role in crafting visually stunning environments by designing and implementing lighting that enhances mood, storytelling, and gameplay. It is a collaboration with the Lead Artist, Environment Art, Level Design, and VFX team in order to implement atmospheres and lead the player’s attention based on the artistic direction, gameplay design, technological limitations and production deadlines.

The main and routine tasks of the Lighting Artist are to:

• Design and implement lighting setups for game environments, characters, and cinematics to enhance visual quality and mood
• Collaborate with Art directors, Level designers and Level artists to achieve the desired artistic vision while maintaining gameplay clarity
• Ensure consistency in lighting across scenes and levels, adhering to the artistic and technical standards of the project
• Optimize lighting for performance across various platforms, ensuring minimal impact on frame rates and memory usage
• Work with shaders and post-processing effects (e.g., color grading, bloom, shadows) to enhance the overall visual Ambiance / Aesthetic
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to lighting systems in collaboration with technical artists and other related teams
• Contribute to the development of tools and workflows to improve lighting efficiency and flexibility
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and techniques related to lighting in games

A Level Designer creates the game world and defines the moment-to-moment gameplay experiences with the game’s mechanics and systems. With a player-oriented mindset, you will take levels from concept to fully playable prototypes, and further work with other disciplines to deliver fully realized, narrative experiences to a AAA standard.

The main and routine tasks of the Level Designer are to:

• Conceptualize and prototype the layout of 3D game environments and player goals and activities
• Build 3D game worlds by placing interactive elements in the game world to create variety, distribution, and progression of player activity using iterative design methods
• Work with our Scriptwriters, Cinematic Designers, and realization teams to create original, memorable, and compelling narrative content for our games.
• Communicate designs to the team through presentations and documents
• Collaborate with Directors and Leads to bring on their high-level creative vision of our game worlds to life
• Collaborate with other game developers in other job disciplines such as Production, Engineering, Art, Lighting, Animation, Narrative, and others – adapting to technical constraints while bringing game environments from concept to shippable quality
• Contribute to the improvement of the overall game by providing feedback to the team and use their feedback to iterate on your designs.
• Stay up to date on current trends, best practices, and latest technologies in your field of expertise
• Share knowledge and mentor junior team member