[Hiring] VFX Artist @Virtuos

Role Description

Join our team of like-minded people passionate about a common goal and love for games as a VFX Artist!

• Create high-quality real-time VFX in different art styles for combat, environments, destruction, weather, and UI.
• Integrate, test, profile, and optimize effects for the target engine and platform.
• Solve creative and technical issues while collaborating with art, design, animation, and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of industry experience and a portfolio demonstrating real-time VFX in a released game or game engine.
• Hands-on experience with Niagara, Unity VFX Graph, or comparable particle systems.
• Ability to create effects independently from reference and concept through in-engine integration and polish.
• Strong knowledge of real-time rendering, materials and shaders, lighting, PBR, flipbooks, masks, UV distortion, decals, and vertex animation.
• Proficiency in creating VFX textures, meshes, and simple animations using 3D and texturing software.
• Strong artistic fundamentals, including composition, form, silhouette, color, light, timing, anticipation, impact, readability, and visual hierarchy.
• Ability to adapt effects to gameplay, camera distance, environment, lighting, and a broad range of art styles.
• Practical optimization and profiling knowledge, including overdraw, shader complexity, particle count, draw calls, memory, LODs, and scalability.
• Understanding of production pipelines, version control, naming conventions, asset structure, and task tracking.
• English level B1+

Requirements

• Working knowledge of dynamics and simulation tools such as Houdini.
• Scripting experience for pipeline or workflow automation.
• Strong animation principles and an interest in both technical and artistic problem-solving.

Benefits

• Opportunities for professional advancement, including access to training, workshops, and other learning programs.
• Clear and transparent employee growth assessment system with regular feedback for your career development.
• Access to an international network of studios, opening up opportunities to work on global projects.
• A creative and innovative environment that values employee ideas and participation in exciting processes.
• Modern office located in the heart of Kyiv — on Podil, one of the most atmospheric districts of the city.
• Medical insurance.
• Support for employees during blackouts to ensure uninterrupted work both in the office and remotely.
• Possibility of remote work and flexible schedule on corporate equipment.
• A transparent system for employment types and interaction with employees, as the company is a resident of Diia.City.
• Opportunities to engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects.