Gaming:

Welcome to the world of land-based gaming. At Light & Wonder, it’s all about the games, and our Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for the most iconic casinos and operators across the globe.

Position Summary

Bring our games to life as a translator between art and engineering, working closely with the game studio artists and engineers to ensure that the player-facing vision for the game is achieved. Other duties include managing and improving the content creation pipeline, working with game artists on asset implementation, and staying current on game industry tools and processes. Requires experience working with Unity and Unity3D software, excellent coding skills, and a good eye for detail.

Essential Job Functions:

• Implement art assets in Unity.

• Participate in the planning, architecting, and implementing of game functionality.

• Identify and fix code errors and performance bottlenecks.

• Prototype and test game functionality and theme dynamics.

• Ensure the optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of games.

• Experience with memory and space optimization.

• Knowledge of scripting, animation, session management, and textures.

• Good troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Assist Artists and Engineers with technical issues related to the art pipeline.

• Assist with documenting best practices.

Qualifications

Training and/or Experience:

• Minimum of 2-5 years of relevant work experience in graphic design

• 1 year game development experience or academic equivalent.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Working knowledge of 2D and 3D graphics (After Effects and 3DsMax, or equivalent).

• Working knowledge of Unity, Unreal, or equivalent game engine.

• Understanding of versioning software i.e. Perforce (Preferred), CVS, Alien Brain or similar.

• Experience with game assets (examples: meshes, animations, materials).

• Experience in profiling and optimizing game and render performance (GPU and CPU).

• Understanding of game design process, and experience working with game

• development team.

• Ability to identify errors and troubleshoot.

• Ability to interact and collaborate with the immediate team, as well as junior and senior colleagues.

Education:

• BA/BS in Graphic Design or related field (In lieu of degree, 4 years relevant work experience)

Work Conditions: 
Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, “L&W”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses. As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts. In order to ensure L&W complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, L&W requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles. As a prerequisite to employment with L&W (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to L&W conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you. 

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above. 

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