Unity Art Optimization Engineer

Company Description

Gape Labs is a seed funded fast-growing mobile gaming studio building mid-core games that are competitive, strategic and fun to play. We ship frequently, value fast iteration and player feedback, and maintain a small, high-impact engineering team. Join us to help scale our flagship title that can reach millions globally and build a second mobile title.

Role Description

As a Technical Artist, you will work closely with artists, and engineers to bring visuals to life inside Unity. You will create and optimize VFX, work on shaders, establish art pipelines, and ensure all assets meet performance budgets. This is an artist-first role with strong technical proficiency — ideal for someone who loves both creativity and problem-solving.

What you’ll do

• Create high-quality VFX using Unity’s VFX Graph / Particle System.
• Build and optimize shaders (Shader Graph or HLSL preferred).
• Ensure assets meet mobile-friendly performance budgets (poly count, texture sizes, draw calls).
• Set up and test art assets inside Unity (lighting, materials, prefabs).
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure assets behave correctly in gameplay.
• Work with artists to establish best practices for asset creation.
• Assist with pipeline tools and workflows (import settings, LODs, compression).
• Identify visual problems and propose performance-friendly solutions.
• Contribute to overall game style and polish during production.

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