Craft:
Art
Job Description:
As a Senior Technical Artist on thisUnannounced Project, you will help define how our visual ambitions become performant, polished, in-engine experiences.
You will work closely with artists, designers, engineers, and production to turn concepts, mockups, and visual targets into scalable Unity implementations. This role sits at the intersection of art and engineering: part visual problem solver, part pipeline builder, part hands-on implementer.
We are looking for someone who can raise the quality of the game’s visuals while helping the team move faster. You should be comfortable working directly in Unity, building shaders and materials, improving workflows,identifyingbottlenecks, and supporting content creators with practical, production-ready solutions.
This is a senior, hands-on role for someone wholeadsby example, communicates well across crafts, and helps the team make strong technical and artistic decisions.
Your role within our Kingdom
Build and support shaders, materials, VFX, lighting, and visual systems in Unity
Partner with artists, designers, engineers, and production teams to solve visual and technical challenges
Skills to create the thrills
You are curious, collaborative, and technically minded, with experience translating visual direction into practical in-engine solutions. You enjoy solving visual and workflow challenges, improving how teams create content, and balancing quality with performance.
We are looking forexperience with:
Shaders,renderingworkflows, lighting, optimization, and performance-aware content creation
Asset pipelines, tooling, scripting, or workflow automation inUnityorDCC toolssuch asBlender, Maya, or Houdini
Bonus skills
Procedural workflows, VFX Graph, Shader Graph, rigging, animation systems, or customization pipelines
Profiling, import pipelines, validators, automation tools, or version control systems such as Git or Perforce
Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At King, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.
About King
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @king_games on X.
