Technical Artist

About the Position

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 maximize visual quality while staying within real-time performance and hardware limitations.
• Supports the creation, optimization, 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, optimization, 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.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Technical Artist or similar role on a commercial game development project.
• Strong understanding of real-time art production, optimization, 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, optimization, 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.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work on exciting, new, and unannounced projects.
• Work with seasoned developers from world-class AAA studios.
• Be part of a global leader in providing art services to AAA Publishers.

About the Company

Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any adjustments during the process, please let us know in your application. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We especially welcome applications from candidates of underrepresented groups in the industry.

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