Lead VFX Artist

• Push the visual fidelity of VFX using UE5’s latest features (Niagara, Lumen, Nanite) while balancing performance requirements. - Drive innovation in real-time effects, cinematic presentation, and player feedback. - Collaborate with technical artists and engineers to expand UE5’s VFX toolset and pipeline for AAA production. - Set and maintain performance budgets for VFX across platforms (PC, console, next-gen hardware). - Manage and mentor a team of VFX artists, providing clear direction, feedback, and professional development. - Define workflows and pipelines for UE5 VFX production, ensuring efficiency and scalability across large teams. - Partner with design teams to ensure VFX enhance gameplay readability, feedback, and immersion. Work with cinematics, animation, and lighting teams to integrate VFX into cutscenes and storytelling sequences. - Act as the primary Unreal Engine VFX expert, supporting cross-team problem solving and technical guidance. Essential Skills, Attributes and Experience

• Minimum 7+ years of VFX experience in the games industry, including at least 2 shipped AAA titles. - Expert-level proficiency in Unreal Engine 5, including Niagara, materials, shaders, Lumen, and optimization workflows. - Strong portfolio showcasing high-fidelity, real-time UE5 VFX. - Solid understanding of real-time rendering, particle systems, physics, and performance constraints. - Proven leadership experience managing and mentoring a VFX team. - Excellent cross-discipline collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills. Highly Desirable

• Experience with procedural tools (Houdini, EmberGen) integrated into UE5 pipelines. - Familiarity with cinematic or pre-rendered VFX via Unreal Sequencer. - Experience managing outsourcing or external vendors. - Understanding of multiplayer or networked gameplay VFX challenges. - Passion for staying at the forefront of real-time VFX and Unreal Engine innovation. Hangar 13  prides itself on the diversity of its team members, partners, and communities. For this reason, we remain committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employment relationship, from recruitment and hiring through compensation, benefits, discipline and termination. Please contact us if you need to request reasonable accommodation. SECURITY NOTICE - We have recently been made aware of increasing occurrences of bad actors posing as company HR personnel to gain information from "potential candidates", in the form of job interviews and offers. These scams can be quite sophisticated and appear legitimate. Please know that Hangar 13 and 2K never use instant messaging apps to contact prospective employees or to conduct interviews. If you believe you have been a victim of such a scam, you may fill out a complaint form at https://complaint.ic3.gov/ and https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ detailing as much as possible. We are taking these matters very seriously and apologize for any inconvenience. #LI-Hybrid

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