About Spellbrush
Here at Spellbrush, we're passionate about making a good anime game. We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio — we're the team behind niji・journey.We are currently investigating how AI can be used to help human artists perform masterpieces in the most complex medium of our times: videogames.Our games are characterized by a no-compromise approach to well-balanced gameplay married to a truthful love of visual arts.If you love turn-based tactics games, please consider applying!
About the role
Here at Spellbrush , we're passionate about making a good anime game.
We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio — we're the team behind niji・journey.
We are currently investigating how AI can be used to help human artists perform masterpieces in the most complex medium of our times: videogames.
Our games are characterized by a no-compromise approach to well-balanced gameplay married to a truthful love of visual arts.
If you love turn-based tactics games, please consider applying!
The Role:
Spellbrush, the world’s leading generative AI studio behind_ niji・journey __ , _ is looking for a Technical Artist to bring our mobile turn-based tactics game to life with distinctive flair! If you love games like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics and are eager to help waifus and husbandos look their sharpest, hit us up!
What you’ll do:
Work closely with the art and engineering teams to develop tools and pipelines for Unity (shaders, materials, etc.) that improve the art creation process.
Implement and optimize art assets within the engine, ensuring optimal performance across a variety of platforms and devices.
Collaborate with the development team to ensure that art assets are delivered on time and to the highest standards of quality.
Learn to use Generative AI to enhance (not replace!) your workflows.
You might be a great fit if:
You have an eagle’s eye for details.
We’re looking for someone with ideally 3+ years of technical artist experience, but more importantly someone with the sensibility to break down, recreate, and invent stunning visual effects down to the tiniest particles.
You envision seamless UX design, and have reincarnated previously painful experiences.
You’re an advocate for optimizing the creative experience, streamlining workflows to eliminate useless buttons and painful additional clicks for artists.
The anime aesthetic resonates with you.
It's no secret – we're huge anime enthusiasts. A deep understanding of audiences who enjoy anime, mobile gacha games, and turn-based tactics games is critical to build successful connectivity across our marketing channels.
You vivify the intersection of art and technology
In addition to our own advanced creative approaches, we would love for our technical artist to explore pioneering methods and technologies for creating the best assets out there.
You're comfortable working on small, fast-paced, on-site teams
Working here will feel very much like a small indie studio: close-knit, with high ownership and flexibility. We’re also an in-person studio. Our games team is at our office in downtown San Francisco, CA, 3-4x a week!
And you're excited about the potential of Generative AI.
You'll also be working closely with some of the best AI researchers in the world: we develop all our own in-house models. You won’t be using Generative AI simply as a vehicle for producing cheap assets. (We simply don’t believe that is an effective workflow) You’ll be working with the research team to explore the frontier of what is possible at the intersection of machine learning, art, and games.
The base salary range for this position is $70,000 - $150,000. The final base salary is dependent upon location, experience, fit, and other factors. In addition, we offer a generous compensation package that includes equity, top-tier employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision insurance, and additional perks!
At Spellbrush, we value creativity, collaboration, and innovation. If you're excited about working with cutting-edge technology and passionate about anime, gaming, and pixel art, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team as a Technical Artist!
To apply - please share your previous work experience/resume, Github, or Portfolio (IMPORTANT - Applications without portfolios will NOT be reviewed), and any other links to previous relevant works and the name of the best waifu or husbando in your message!
Technology
At Spellbrush, we're pushing the boundaries of generative networks through our state-of-the-art diffusion text-to-image research. There's no shorted of interesting tech challenges here:
- Research: We make heavy use of Pytorch and JAX, and train large-scale models using both TPUs and GPUs. Our researchers spend each day developing and testing novel state-of-the-art diffusion models.
- Engineering: We make use of a lot of Elixir for real-time backend systems, Python for machine learning, and lots of simulation and game logic code written in C# via Unity. We also have tons of internal tools and apps written in Typescript, React, and RN.
- Infrastructure: We've done everything from building our own in-house GPU supercomputer, to scaling up massive inference clusters in our own datacenters, typically orchestrating via some unholy combination of SLURM, kubernetes, and NATS.
