Employment Opportunities: jobs@nakedsky.com

Gameplay Programmers -

We are looking for gameplay programmers to help with existing and future console and PC projects.

Requirements:
- Fluent C++ knowledge
- Experience in Gameplay systems like AI, Scripting, Inventory Management.
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science or related field (Engineering, Math, Physics)

Preferance to applicants with:
- Linear Algebra / Vector knowledge
- Multiplayer, high and/or low level networking experience
- D3D and/or OpenGL experience
- Console experience, particularly X360, PS3 and Wii
- 3+ years in the industry

Tools Programmers -

We are looking for tools programmers to help with existing and future console and PC projects.

Requirements:
- Fluent C++ knowledge
- Experience with Windows scripting, as well as linux and MacOSX shell scripting
- Experience in Tools development, Debuggers, Content Conditioners

Preferance to applicants with:
- Console experience, particularly X360, PS3 and Wii
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science or related field (Engineering, Math, Physics)

Engine Programmers -

We are looking for experienced engine programmers to help build our in-house technology.

Requirements:
- Fluent C++ knowledge
- C# knowledge
- Experience with multiple core system tasks, such as graphics, audio/video, networking, memory handling, script compilers, I/O, etc.

Preferance to applicants with:
- DirectX 11 experience
- iPhone development experience
- Console experience, particularly X360, PS3 and Wii
- 3+ years in the industry
- BS (or higher) in Computer Science or related field (Engineering, Math, Physics)

3D Artist -

Experienced 3D artist with the ability to create highly detailed character and environment assets for next-generation console and PC games.

Qualifications
- Experience working on at least one published title.
- Artists must have experience creating normal, specular, diffuse, and effects maps.
- Must be proficient in generating normal maps from multiple sources including modeling, height maps, and photos.
- Creative with a positive attitude.
- Solid understanding of weight, scale, and proportion.
- Mastery of Maya or 3DS Max.
- Texture artists must be experts in Photoshop and familiar with other 2D and 3D tools. # Organized and detail oriented with a very consistent follow through.


Bonus Qualifications
- Previous experience with popular existing game engines like UE3 is preferred.
- Experience working on AAA titles.
- Currently living in the greater Los Angeles area.

Concept artist -

Naked Sky is looking for concept artist to visualize a highly stylized world and the beings within it. The concept artist will help define the look, feel, design, color, mood, and character of the world. Concepts will be presented as sketches, story boards, orthos and renderings. This person will collaborate with the Art Director, other Artists and Designers to create concepts that adhere to the overall Art Direction and technical constraints of the end product.

Qualifications
-2+ years experience
-Requires strong drawing, color and compostion skills
-Proficient in Photoshop, Painter and other design tools
-Strong character and environment design skills
-Strong organizational skills
-Texture experience a plus

FX artist -

Naked Sky is looking for a Visual FX artist to add explosive flair to our games! The ideal candidate will be as dynamic as the visual effects he/she creates. This role will not only add the visual polish to make our games outstanding, but will be integral to the further development of our proprietary engine technology.

Qualifications
- Unquenchable thirst for making beautiful, rich visual effects
- Demonstrated ability to create varied and complex particle systems, sprites, and materials
- Amazing attention to detail
- Comprehensive knowledge of Photoshop, Maya and equivalent tools
- Knowledge of particle effects tools and the ability to replicate complicated FX in a real-time engine
- Driven and motivated to meet challenges and a collaborative spirit
- Communicate clearly and effectively between departments (art, design, programming
- 2+ years of industry experience
- Stunning examples of previous work accompanied by a description of the Candidate’s contribution
- Unreal Engine 3 experience a plus

Systems Designer -

Are you a budding designer with programming background? Do you spend time theorizing about optimal methods of human-computer interaction? Are you able to take simple ideas and quickly prototype them in code? If so, Naked Sky Entertainment would like to meet you! The ideal candidate is familiar with the game development process, has some design and programming experience, and is comfortable with the process of taking direction in order to rapid prototype various systems for an upcoming, multi-platform game.

Qualifications
- At least 1 design credit on a shipped game
- Working knowledge of UE3 or other current-gen game engines
- Proficiency in C++
- General understanding of the tenets of good HCI
- Self-motivated, excellent communication skills, open to direction, and hard-working

Bonus Qualifications
- AAA title experience
- University level degree
- Experience working in game QA
- Advanced coding skills

Technical Designer -

Do you spend hours thinking about how to make every game you play even better? Do you sit and wonder about how to tweak everyday objects in order to make them perform to your exacting specifications? Do you love tinkering with values to get the balance of something just right? If so, Naked Sky Entertainment would like to meet you! The ideal candidate is familiar with the game development process, has tangible design experience, and is comfortable with the process of interpreting a game design document in order to rig, implement, and tune game assets and scenarios.

Qualifications
- At least 1 design credit on a shipped game
- Working knowledge of UE3 or other current-gen game engines
- Strong scripting kung-fu, whether graphical or traditional
- Brilliant understand of what makes games FUN
- Self-motivated, passionate about games, open to direction, and hard-working
- Solid writing skills

Bonus Qualifications
- AAA title experience
- University level degree
- Experience working in game QA
- Some knowledge of C++ or other programming languages

Level Designer -

Are you a builder, a budding architect, an imaginer of worlds? Are you able to construct structural masterpieces from simple primitives? Do you dream of orthogonal viewports? If so, let us know! Naked Sky Entertainment is looking for a talented level designer to build a variety of spaces, from origin point to final polish. The ideal candidate is familiar with the game development process, has tangible design experience, and is comfortable with the process of interpreting a game design document in order to build, populate, script, and polish a series of levels.

Qualifications
- At least 1 design credit on a shipped game
- Working knowledge of UE3 or other current-gen game engines
- Advanced grasp of structural flow, visual communication
- Strong scripting kung-fu, whether graphical or traditional
- Solid mapping skills, whether on paper or 2D digital
- Proficient with camera interpolation
- Self-motivated, passionate about games, open to direction, and hard-working

Bonus Qualifications
- AAA title experience
- University level degree
- Experience working in game QA
- Some knowledge of C++ or other programming languages