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Get a job: Join Airship Syndicate as a Mid to Senior Worldbuilder

We're currently working on an unannounced PC/console title (with an exciting pedigree), and need help bringing the game world to life.

August 12, 2020

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Mid to Senior Worldbuilder (Unreal Engine), Airship Syndicate

Location: Austin, Texas

We're currently working on an unannounced PC/console title (with an exciting pedigree), and need help bringing the game world to life.

If you love building levels and bringing worlds to life for players, read on!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Creating interesting, lived-in worlds with clever world building in Unreal Engine.

  • Placing environment assets, VFX, lighting, and so on

  • Establishing and maintaining technical requirements for environment assets and levels

  • Working closely with designers to iterate on and finalize level layouts

  • Utilization of 3DS Max or Maya, Photoshop, and other related tools to author environment assets

  • Working with art leadership to review, critique and iterate on work

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Familiarity with the usual tools of the trade: modeling tools, game engines, source control, and so on.

  • A keen willingness to adapt work as design iterates or evolves

  • A do-whatever-it-takes mindset: flexibility to learn and grow to fill the needs of a small team

  • Good understanding of how to create believable and visually memorable levels

  • Good understanding optimization needs and other technical requirements regarding performance

  • 5+ years of experience, demonstrating the above responsibilities in action

  • Must be immediately eligible to work in the United States

PLUSES:

  • Titles shipped using Unreal

  • Titles shipped across major platforms

  • Affinity to learning new tools and techs

  • Proficiency creating hand-painted textures

SOME OF THE BENEFITS WE OFFER:

  • Full health benefits including medical, dental and vision

  • Profit sharing

  • Generous PTO

  • Relocation packages 

PLUS...

  • Office movie lunches

  • Snacks on snacks on snacks

  • Ping Pong with a leaderboard

  • One sick mame cabinet

Interested? Apply now.

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