We’re looking for a skilled and experienced Principal Technical Artist with a strong background in technical animation. This role requires a deep understanding of animation principles, rigging, and scripting and the ability to collaborate with artists and engineers to develop cutting-edge tools and workflows. As a Tech Artist at Stoke Games, you act as the bridge between Art and Engineering and contribute to the look and feel of the game.

YOU ARE:

• Passionate about playing and making great games.

• Able to build foundations for Tech Art that will help as the team and studio scale.

• Constantly on the lookout for new tools and ways to push Art through tech.

• Excited to contribute to the game and a high-performing, creative studio culture.

• Knowledgeable in designing, building, managing, and maintaining the content pipeline from asset creation through deployment.

• Comfortable innovating rapidly, solving issues in collaboration with cross-functional teams, and continuously adapting to evolving needs and requirements.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong Knowledge of procedural animation techniques.

• Experience with animation, animation workflows, and setting up scalable runtime destruction systems.

• Experience rigging mechanical systems and creating procedural, modular control rigs for ease of use and scalable reusability.

• Familiarity with shader development and real-time rendering techniques.

• Experience building optimized Unreal materials with material functions, HLSL nodes, and VFX data interfaces.

• Proficient at writing blueprint utilities, Python/PySide scripting, and designing automation workflows.

• Understanding of setting up procedural content generation systems for level building.

• Understanding of asset optimization and system scalability.

PLUSES:

• C++ Experience

• Strong foundation in 3D math

OUR BENEFITS:

• Fully Remote: We don't have a central office and don't plan to. We believe the flexibility of remote enables people to do their best work and the studio to bring together the best talent.

• Studio Ownership: We want everyone on the team to have a meaningful ownership stake in the studio and offer outsized equity grants

• Health Benefits: We offer excellent and fully covered medical plans with a $0 deductible.

• Stoke Fund: An annual stipend for pursuing peak experiences, whatever that means for each person — whether it's traveling with your partner, a board game weekend with friends, F1 Miami, Larping, or something as mundane as sky diving.

• Take what you need PTO: In addition to team-wide breaks scheduled into our roadmap, we support team members taking whatever time they need to recharge.

• 401k: We offer a 401k plan for tax advantaged savings for everyone.

Learn more about our benefits

Stoke Games is a new independent game studio dedicated to crafting enduring multiplayer games that challenge and bring players together. Formed by veterans with experience on some of the most beloved games in the industry, we believe game development is not a factory process but a creative endeavor and a love letter to an audience.

Our first game is what we call “shooter-adjacent” and focuses on competitive PvP with innovative twists and heavy doses of strategic, deliberate action.