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Technical VFX Artist

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: Chai Time Games
Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-09
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Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 70000 - 100000 USD Yearly USD 70000.00 100000.00 YEAR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

We are looking for a Technical VFX Artist to build our combat, ability, and environmental effects and shaders directly in Unity
. Project Trinity is a fast, top-down co-op action RPG where up to 4 players and 20 enemies can share the screen - so every effect has to feel punchy while keeping the battlefield readable.

Our visual target is stylized and painterly / hand-painted
, taking readability cues from Hades and Windblown.

What You Will Do
  • Combat & Class Ability VFX: Author effects for weapon combos, Class Abilities, and Super Abilities across our playable heroes - projectile trails, area impacts, ground quakes, and ability telegraphs.
  • Boss, Enemy & Puzzle VFX: Create effects for enemy telegraphs, boss attacks, glowing enemy states, shrine buffs, and co-op puzzle conduits.
  • Custom Shaders: Build and maintain custom shaders in Unity for combat readability, status-effect feedback, interactable highlights, and foreground circular punch-through when the camera view of a player is obstructed.
  • In-Engine Integration: Work directly in Unity to assemble particle systems, meshes, trails, materials, and prefabs that hook cleanly into gameplay timings and multiplayer state.
What We Are Looking For
  • Proven experience authoring stylized real-time VFX and custom shaders in Unity (VFX Graph, Particle System / Shuriken, Shader Graph, and/or HLSL).
  • Strong sense of timing, anticipation, impact frames, and dissipation for snappy top-down combat.
  • Discipline around co-op visual clarity: making player attacks, teammate buffs, and enemy danger zones immediately distinguishable without cluttering the screen.
  • Comfort profiling and keeping overdraw and shader cost within budget for up to 4 players and 20 active enemies.
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