Senior Technical Artist

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Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry, we’d love to hear from you!

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game StudiosAs a Senior Technical Artist, you will…Create 3D rigs and skinning of different types of objects and charactersProvide guidance for the art teams to create performant and PBR compliant game artCreate tools to support artist’s work and asset integration in the game engineDefine budgets and create technical art guidelinesTroubleshoot and address performance issues in the gameWrite documentation and collaborate with other teams

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.You have 5+ years’ experience in the video game industry in a similar roleYou have experience skinning and riggingYou have in-depth knowledge of PBR workflowsYou are highly proficient with modern art content pipelines including Maya and 3dsMax, ZBrush and Substance Painter (Designer is plus)You possess good knowledge of Python/MAXScript and experience developing tools for Maya/3dsMaxYou are experienced in developing games targeting low-end devices (mobile, VR, Switch, MMO…)You have experience with UnityYou have experience creating 3D assets (modeling, UVs, texturing)You are comfortable with different art styles

Bonus SkillsYou have experience with shader coding and/or node-based shading editors.You are comfortable with procedural content creation (Houdini)You can model characters.You have experience with VFX creation.

Senior Technical Artist - The typical base pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $75,000 - $165,000 per year.

ZeniMax has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets. The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role; the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At ZeniMax certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, such as merit increases and discretionary bonuses. These awards are allocated based on individual performance and are not guaranteed. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with ZeniMax and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting for our studios, publishing and operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Our diversity fuels our innovation and inspires us to create game worlds that bring us closer to the global community of players we serve.