Ramen VR
Technical Artist
Ramen VR, San Francisco, CA
We're an ambitious and small team looking to add a versatile Technical Artist to help bring our vision to life! Use your multidisciplinary skills to help us create awesome visuals and provide a buttery smooth experience for our player base.
The ideal candidate is someone that has a perfect mix of artistic and technical experience for VR; someone who understands the strengths and limitations of the medium and hardware and is able to help with optimization, VFX, and pipeline.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Pluses
About Ramen VR
Meaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world.
We're working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest. We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.
We're funded by some of the best investors and gaming entrepreneurs in the world including Y Combinator, Makers Fund, Twitch COO Kevin Lin, and Kabam Cofounder Holly Liu and also the most successful VR Gaming Kickstarter of all time.
About The Team
At Ramen VR, we're a mix of DIY (Hackers/Modders/Dropouts), AAA (Riot, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft), and tech (Google/Apple). We're looking for S-tier developers and technologists, regardless of your background.
Why Work At Ramen VR?
Create the Next Reality
Every startup claims they are changing the world. How often do you find one that's building an entirely new reality? Also, we're such a small team, that every team member makes real, tangible impact on our products and the future of the company.
We Love Games
Have a favorite game coming out? Take a day off on launch day. We'll even buy you the deluxe version of the game. Play the game, and just do a short write-up to teach us what you learned.
Company Retreats
Travel somewhere in the world with us, and live in a big house together for a week, all expenses paid. Spend time working, playing games, exploring a new country, and growing together.
Benefits
We offer unlimited PTO, full coverage health insurance (for you and dependents) if you're based in the US, an annual health & wellness stipend for non-US based folks, annual tech stipends to use towards VR/equipment and more.
The ideal candidate is someone that has a perfect mix of artistic and technical experience for VR; someone who understands the strengths and limitations of the medium and hardware and is able to help with optimization, VFX, and pipeline.
Responsibilities
- Optimize art assets and game builds for VR platforms (Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, etc)
- Analyze game performance and memory allocation and come up with solutions to help us hit performance goals.
- Be knowledgeable on the latest tools and technologies and how they can enhance our pipeline.
- Create tools and optimize art pipelines, and establish best practices for importing models, animations, and rigging
- Optimize and create VFX, and shaders
- Ability to create game-ready 3d Assets.
Requirements
- 3 - 5 years of Technical Art experience with at least one shipped title.
- Strong art portfolio with an emphasis on VFX
- Experience with particle and physics simulations using Blender, Houdini, or similar 3d package.
- Expert level Unity Engine experience
- Experience working on optimizing VR Platforms
- Programming knowledge in C#, and shader programming, like CG/HLSL
- Experience with GPU, CPU, and Memory profiling using the Unity toolset, Renderdoc, and Snapdragon Profiler.
- Interested in startups, or building a small studio from the ground up. (You'll wear a lot of hats!)
Pluses
- Core rendering, and graphics programming experience including linear algebra and math.
- Hands-on experience across various art disciplines such as 3d Asset Creation, Environment Art, Animation, and VFX.
About Ramen VR
Meaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world.
We're working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest. We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.
We're funded by some of the best investors and gaming entrepreneurs in the world including Y Combinator, Makers Fund, Twitch COO Kevin Lin, and Kabam Cofounder Holly Liu and also the most successful VR Gaming Kickstarter of all time.
About The Team
At Ramen VR, we're a mix of DIY (Hackers/Modders/Dropouts), AAA (Riot, Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft), and tech (Google/Apple). We're looking for S-tier developers and technologists, regardless of your background.
Why Work At Ramen VR?
Create the Next Reality
Every startup claims they are changing the world. How often do you find one that's building an entirely new reality? Also, we're such a small team, that every team member makes real, tangible impact on our products and the future of the company.
We Love Games
Have a favorite game coming out? Take a day off on launch day. We'll even buy you the deluxe version of the game. Play the game, and just do a short write-up to teach us what you learned.
Company Retreats
Travel somewhere in the world with us, and live in a big house together for a week, all expenses paid. Spend time working, playing games, exploring a new country, and growing together.
Benefits
We offer unlimited PTO, full coverage health insurance (for you and dependents) if you're based in the US, an annual health & wellness stipend for non-US based folks, annual tech stipends to use towards VR/equipment and more.