Technical Artist

Cold Symmetry
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April 10, 2025
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Cold Symmetry, creators of the acclaimed indie title Mortal Shell, is expanding. As we grow and strive to produce even better games, we remain committed to a culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We’re looking for like-minded individuals—ambitious, creative risk-takers who pour their heart and soul into crafting games they love and want to play.

As a fully remote studio, we welcome candidates from around the globe who are exceptional at what they do. Competence, resourcefulness, extreme ownership in your area of expertise, and a relentless drive to achieve are what we value.

Join us as we work on an ambitious new project with a team of industry veterans aiming to create something incredible.

We are looking for a self-driven Technical Artist with solid artistic and technical skills to create beautiful and detailed work that pushes the possibilities of gameplay and storytelling on next-generation consoles. 

 

You’ll Own

  • Liaising between heads of programming and design teams
  • Researching and developing technical tools for a project
  • Developing complex shaders and materials
  • Supporting artists and engineers in the 3D art pipeline
  • Assisting in asset performance and validation
  • Solving complex technical issues during development
  • Working within the limits of the game engine, curating file sizes, polygon counts and loading speeds
  • Optimizing environments and establishing physics barriers
  • Developing performance of frame rate and memory
  • Resolving material errors and collision issues
  • Monitoring the performance of the game
  • Maintaining technical documentation

 

Your XP and Skills

  • 3+ years experience in game development as a Technical Artist.
  • Experienced in Unreal Engine.
  • Experienced in Nanite, VSM and Lumen optimizations.
  • Experienced in making and maintaining tools and materials.
  • Good communication skills and the ability to help and mentor other team members.
  • Participate in critiques and be open to giving and receiving feedback.
  • Great organizational skills and a deadline-oriented - ability to establish scope, plan, and deliver milestones while adjusting when changes happen.
  • Self motivated and able work independently as part of a fully distributed and, at times, a-sync team to meet deadlines and milestone requirements
About 
Cold Symmetry

Cold Symmetry is the studio that created Mortal Shell - a successful indie title crafted by a small passionate team. As we grow bigger and aim to produce better games, we want to preserve our culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We want to fill our team with people like us who set ambitious goals, are not afraid to take creative risks, and pour their heart and soul into making a game they love, and ultimately, would love to play.

We're looking to expand both our core team and our network of contractors. We are a distributed studio and all of our positions are fully remote. We are considering candidates from anywhere in the world as long as you're really good at what you do. What matters to us is that you're competent, talented, resourceful, take extreme ownership in your specialized area, and have a burning desire to get things done.

If this describes you we'd like to talk.

Featured Game
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Mortal Shell 2 is a standalone sequel to Mortal Shell that significantly expands on the original. Explore a dense, open world filled with dark secrets, strange companions, and loathsome foes. Combat is fast-paced and fluid with more weapons, shells, and abilities to match any playstyle. The shells themselves contain new secrets with extensive stories and unique powers to uncover.

Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. As the remains of humanity wither and rot, zealous foes fester in the ruins. They spare no mercy, with survival demanding superior awareness, precision and instincts. Track down hidden sanctums of devout followers and discover your true purpose.

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