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Senior VFX Artist At Absurd Ventures

Company: Absurd Ventures

Location: San Rafael, California, USA

Job Type: Full-Time

Salary: $145,000 – $180,000 / Year

About the Role

Absurd Ventures is seeking an experienced Senior VFX Artist to create breathtaking real-time visual effects for an ambitious open-world game. You will work with talented artists, designers, and engineers to develop immersive visual experiences that meet AAA quality standards while maintaining excellent performance.

Job Overview

In this on-site position, you will own the creation and implementation of advanced real-time effects, from concept through final integration. Working primarily within Unreal Engine pipelines, you will help define the visual identity of the game while collaborating across multiple disciplines to deliver polished gameplay and cinematic effects.

Key Responsibilities

  • Visual Effects Creation: Design and implement high-quality real-time VFX for environments, character abilities, destruction sequences, and cinematics.
  • Feature Ownership: Manage complex visual effects from concept to final implementation while solving technical production challenges.
  • Creative Collaboration: Partner with the VFX Director, designers, engineers, lighting artists, and environment teams to achieve the project’s artistic vision.
  • Optimization: Ensure all effects are optimized for memory usage and runtime performance while maintaining exceptional visual fidelity.
  • Pipeline Development: Test new tools, contribute to workflow improvements, and communicate technical requirements with engineering teams.
  • Quality Assurance: Continuously refine effects to achieve AAA visual standards and support immersive gameplay experiences.
  • Industry Research: Stay current with emerging real-time VFX technologies, rendering techniques, and industry best practices.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional experience as a VFX Artist in the video game industry.
  • Experience shipping at least one AAA game title.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating high-quality real-time visual effects.
  • Professional experience with Unreal Engine, including Niagara, materials, sequencing, and real-time rendering workflows.
  • Strong understanding of particle systems, shaders, lighting, PBR, and performance optimization.
  • Experience with Houdini, Maya, 3ds Max, EmberGen, or similar industry-standard tools.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical problem-solving skills.

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree in Visual Effects, Animation, Game Art, Computer Graphics, or a related discipline is preferred.
  • Equivalent professional experience in AAA game development will also be considered.
  • Additional training in Unreal Engine, Niagara, or real-time VFX pipelines is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary ranging from $145,000–$180,000 per year.
  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • Paid vacation, sick leave, company holidays, and parental leave.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Potential bonus opportunities and equity awards.

Become part of Absurd Ventures and help create visually spectacular effects that bring expansive game worlds to life. If you are passionate about real-time VFX, Unreal Engine, and AAA game development, this is an outstanding opportunity to make a lasting creative impact on an exciting new project.

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