Technical Artist

Keywords Studios is currently looking to expand its team in Southeast Asia. We're currently looking for an accomplished, enthusiastic, and self-motivated Technical Artist to join our team working on an exciting, new, and unannounced project. 

Keywords Studios is a global leader providing art services to AAA Publishers. Our work can be seen across many of the top-selling titles on console, PC and mobile. You'll get to work alongside seasoned developers bringing expertise from world-class AAA studios.

These opportunities can be located in Malaysia, Indonesia, or Vietnam (Remote). Sponsorship and relocation are not being offered as part of this package.

A Technical Artist at Keywords Studios:

• Creates and maintains tools, scripts and pipelines that help the art team produce high-quality visual content efficiently.
• Works closely with artists, designers, engineers and other technical experts to identify technical issues, improve workflows and support production needs.
• Helps the art team communicate technical requirements and constraints to the development team.
• Solves technical challenges creatively to maximise visual quality while staying within real-time performance and hardware limitations.
• Supports the creation, optimisation and implementation of complex visual content, including materials, shaders, procedural assets and VFX.
• Prototypes, develops, profiles and implements procedural VFX, including particles, post-processing effects, shaders and related visual systems.
• Contributes to pipeline development, optimisation and best practices across content creation, integration and performance.
• Drives the creation of complex procedural and physically based content, helping ensure assets are efficient, scalable and production-ready.

• Proven experience as a Technical Artist or similar role on a commercial game development project.

• Strong understanding of real-time art production, optimisation, pipeline development and technical problem-solving.
• Proficiency in scripting and other languages such as MAXScript, MEL, C#, Python, HLSL, GLSL.
• Good artistic eye, with the ability to balance visual quality, technical constraints and performance requirements.
• Experience with VFX, materials, shaders, lighting models, tool development, optimisation and pipeline development.
• Experience working with modern game engines such as Unreal Engine, Unity or proprietary engines.
• Experience with art production tools such as Photoshop, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Maya or 3DS Max.
• Familiarity with source control workflows, ideally Perforce.
• Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and iterate quickly based on feedback.