Technical Artist (Unity)

About the Job

Location: Remote

Experience: 2+ Years

Platform: Mobile (iOS + Android)

Company Description

We are building a platform that combines skill-based gameplay with real commerce, and visual polish with strong performance is critical to our player experience.

We are looking for a Unity Technical Artist who can create high-quality visual effects, optimized environments, and smooth UI experiences while maintaining stable performance (60 FPS) on mobile devices.

What You'll Do

Lighting & Environment

• Design and implement optimised lighting setups for Unity mobile environments.
• Configure baked lighting, light probes, and reflection probes.
• Optimise scenes to maintain high visual quality with minimal GPU cost.
• Work with artists to ensure environments are performance-friendly.

Shader Development

• Design and implement optimised shaders using Shader Graph or HLSL.
• Build stylised materials that maintain high visual fidelity on mobile.
• Optimise shaders for low overdraw and GPU efficiency.

Visual Effects

• Create mobile-optimised particle effects for gameplay events:

1. hits
2. wins
3. explosions
4. rewards
5. UI feedback

UI Visual Polish

• Integrate and polish Unity UI elements with smooth animations and transitions.
• Ensure UI layouts scale across multiple resolutions and aspect ratios.
• Optimise canvas rendering and UI performance.

Performance Optimisation

• Profile and optimise scenes using:

1. Unity Profiler
2. Frame Debugger
3. RenderDoc

• Reduce draw calls, memory usage, and GPU bottlenecks.
• Implement LOD systems, batching, GPU instancing, and occlusion culling.

Tools & Pipeline

• Build custom Unity editor tools to streamline asset integration.
• Improve the art pipeline and asset optimisation workflows.

What We're Looking For

• 2+ years of experience as a Unity Technical Artist, preferably in mobile games.
• Strong experience with Unity URP.
• Deep understanding of mobile rendering optimisation.
• Hands-on experience with:

1. Shader Graph / HLSL
2. Unity Particle System / VFX Graph
3. Unity Profiler & Frame Debugger

• Experience optimising:

1. draw calls
2. texture memory
3. mesh complexity
4. shader cost

• Solid understanding of Unity UI system and canvas optimisation.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on PvP or multiplayer games.
• Knowledge of LOD groups, texture atlasing, and batching strategies.
• Experience with mobile performance optimisation for 60 FPS.
• Familiarity with tools like:

1. Blender
2. Photoshop
3. Substance Painter

• Experience building procedural tools or editor extensions in Unity.

Why Join BattleBucks?

• Help shape the visual identity of multiple games on one platform.
• Work on competitive multiplayer experiences used by thousands of players.
• High ownership role where your work directly impacts gameplay feel and performance.
• Flexible remote work with a fast-moving startup team.