Yellow Brick Games is hiring a Visual Effects Artist to join our team of experienced developers working on an exciting new project. In this role, you will use your experience and artistic eye to bring life to a world through designing and implementing stunning visual effects. You will work closely with the Art, Design, and Animation team to ensure the VFX match the artistic vision for our games.  

Yellow Brick Games is based in Quebec City, Canada, and we are open to discuss remote-work situations. We are committed to diversity and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to place of origin, age, status, religious beliefs, personal orientations, or physical condition.

• Bring life and excitement to our games through design and implementation of stunning visual effects. 
• Partner with the Art Director, to help create incredible real-time rendered visual effects which meet the vision for the gameplay experience.
• Embrace our game development philosophy of putting people first and create stunning visual effects that brings an incredible experience for our players.
• Work closely with Art, Design, and Animation to ensure VFX match the quality bar and artistic vision for our games.
• Coordinate with Programmers and Technical Director to fix VFX related bugs, including performance and budget issues.
• Help define and improve technical pipelines for VFX creation techniques/tools. 
• Participate in research and development. 

• At least one shipped title in the PC or Console space.
• 5+ years experience as an VFXs artist on personal or professional projects.
• Strong knowledge of Unreal engine and Niagara System.
  
• Familiarities with Houdini.
• Strong art skills, with a good notion of lighting.
• Exceptional collaboration skills.
• Self-starting, and actively able to identify problems and own fixes to them.
• Strong sensibilities pertaining to real-time rendered VFX both technically and creatively.
• Able to predict and commit to delivering work in a reasonable timeline.
• Familiarity with agile production methodology.
• Has a real desire to craft video games with fun, emergent gameplay and the ability to both inspire and create.  

Don’t see a posted job that matches your talents and skillset? See one that matches, but worried your experience doesn’t meet the requirements? Don’t be, as we are always on the look out for talented professionals who would be a good fit for our studio.  

As a company founded in the midst of a global pandemic, Yellow Brick Games is open to and experienced with remote work and work from home situations; our team is already composed of people in multiple countries.

We’d love to talk about where you might fit with the Yellow Brick team, now or in the future.