Senior Technical Artist

Radical Forge; Middlesbrough; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Our Mission

Radical Forge is a Middlesbrough, UK-based developer that has provided co-development services on a range of AAA and indie titles. In 2021, the company created its first original IP, 'Brightpaw', which Rogue Games published on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One/Series S/X, Google, and iOS. The studio is currently working on the much-anticipated silly, physics-based, sandbox farming game, 'Southfield'.

Since its beginnings in 2017, the company has grown to over 60 incredibly talented, collaborative, and creative individuals. We are the sum of our skills, passion, and, most of all, our people. We firmly believe that treating individuals with genuine respect, understanding, and kindness creates a welcoming culture that allows creativity to thrive and for individuals to join together to create games they are genuinely proud of.

Your Mission

• Develop tools and workflows that streamline development of in-game cinematics.
• Provide users with powerful graphical tools that simplify workflow and ensure data integrity.
• Provide support to a wide range of users including, but not limited to, internal and external animation teams and cinematic designers.
• Work directly with multiple customer groups to provide solutions that meet their needs.

Ideal Applicant

• 5+ years of experience using Python professionally.
• Deep technical knowledge of Maya, especially in the areas of animation and cinematics.
• Experience developing and supporting runtime cinematic systems in production.
• Experience streamlining workflows, providing support, and maintaining tools in production.
• Familiarity with rigging.
• Experience developing UIs.
• Experience with version control and SCM systems (Git, Perforce, Mercurial, etc.).
• Familiarity with common data formats: JSON/XML/etc.
• Motivated to work collaboratively with technical and creative team members spread across several continents.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must be self-sufficient and have strong time management skills.
• Experience building PyQt or PySide applications.
• Experience working with or developing micro-services.
• Experience with C++ strongly preferred.
• Provide users with powerful graphical tools that integrate data from multiple sources and provide transparency, clarity, and consistency across platforms.

Additional Information

• This role is fully remote.
• We will require all applicants to live in the UK and have a pre-existing right to work in the UK.
• The role will initially be a 12-month contract with the potential to extend after this.

Interested in the job but don't feel you match the criteria? If you feel passionate about this role or joining the Radical Forge team, we would still like to hear from you! We value our company culture, and we’re always looking for creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds to join our team!