Heart Machine is a deeply motivated and close-knit team located in Los Angeles. Our focus is gameplay that’s engaging, fluid and fun, while also building worlds through vibrant art, great stories and incredible sound design. We’re immensely excited to be creating things we love every day.

Although we are all passionate and work incredibly hard, our studio is not a crunch-factory - we like to live our lives, have holidays, and remain healthy throughout a project.

We’re supportive of a diverse working environment - different life perspectives offer a lot to building a better game, studio and understanding of one another.

We’re looking for talented, motivated, smart, highly communicative, diverse and just plain good people to become part of our crew, to collaborate, shape and build something ambitious and unique. 

Full-Time

We love creating a large amount of highly stylized art and in-game assets; it’s vital to have a Technical Artist that can act as a bridge between artists and programmers to own the pipeline and push us to our maximum potential to realize the full beauty of our current and future projects!

Responsibilities + Attributes

• Co-develop tools that support and empower our artists and designers

• Help to build, customize, streamline and maintain our art pipeline

• Able to show technical proficiency in areas such as lighting and rendering, texturing, materials and graphics-related programming languages such as shaders

• Think creatively to resolve technical challenges and limitations

• Use your working knowledge of console hardware architecture to apply techniques for optimization 

Skills + Experience

• Highly proficient with Maya and all relevant tools

• Fair grasp of modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, scripting

• Ample Pymel scripting experience

• Excellent organisational skills

• Built import/export pipelines for artists on at least one (preferably shipped) game

• Great to have: Experience with Houdini and other procedural generation tools

• Bonus: Zbrush and VFX capabilities

Heart Machine Offers*

• Competitive pay through bonus structures

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• 401k

• Paid vacation, holiday and sick time with flexibility in timing

• Paid parental leave

• Flexibility in work location(s)

We are supportive of a diverse workforce and strive for inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

*Benefits and perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Heart Machine and state or country in which you work.