Overview

Established in 1999, Arkane Lyon is one of the most renowned game development studios and has earned a matchless reputation for creating games with unique style and immersive action. The studio’s titles, which include the Dishonored franchise and more recently DEATHLOOP, have received numerous prestigious accolades around the globe, including hundreds of "Game of the Year" awards.

Joining Arkane Lyon is an opportunity to collaborate and evolve within a passionate team, on cutting-edge technologies and innovative games enjoyed by millions of players. You will work in a stimulating and welcoming environment in our offices located in the Lyon (France) Confluence district, a place of greenery, sports, gastronomy and music.

Arkane Lyon is owned by ZeniMax Media and Microsoft.

To expand its programming team and strengthen its internal technology, Arkane studios is seeking talented Tools Programmers. These positions are opened to different levels of expertise, from industry veterans to less experienced candidates. Reporting to the Lead Tools Programmer, the ideal candidate is responsible for developing and maintaining a wide range of production tools in the game editor.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new tools across various game development disciplines (art, level design, animation, build automation)
• Communicate with other departments to improve and debug existing tools, workflow and practices
• Provide support and documentation to the users of the tools

Qualifications

• Programming experience in Edition Tools (level/map editor, keyframe/timeline tool based, visual node edition system, Fx/Particle editor…)
• Strong knowledge of C/C++
• Experience in QT/C++
• Ability to write clear, maintainable, portable code
• Ability to fearlessly jump into large, existing code bases
• Experience with game engine content tools and pipeline
• Excellent systems design experience
• Experience balancing performance and maintainability
• Knowledge and experience in 3D Math (matrix,…)
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Good communication skills in French and in English

Overview

Established in 1999, Arkane Lyon is one of the most renowned game development studios and has earned a matchless reputation for creating games with unique style and immersive action. The studio’s titles, which include the Dishonored franchise and more recently DEATHLOOP, have received numerous prestigious accolades around the globe, including hundreds of "Game of the Year" awards.

Joining Arkane Lyon is an opportunity to collaborate and evolve within a passionate team, on cutting-edge technologies and innovative games enjoyed by millions of players. You will work in a stimulating and welcoming environment in our offices located in the Lyon (France) Confluence district, a place of greenery, sports, gastronomy and music.

Arkane Lyon is owned by ZeniMax Media and Microsoft.

As part of the Producing team, you will play a key role in coordinating, planning, managing priorities and tracking deliverables. You will work in collaboration with different teams to convey the overall vision of the game and its requirements, ensure project consistency and mitigate risks.

Responsibilities

Oversee all planning and schedules :

• Ensure adherence to project release schedules and delivery of milestones on time and on target quality
• Create and update schedules and tasks, ensure status is communicated widely, keeping stakeholders, leadership, and the team aligned
• Drive the sprint milestone goals with the leads of the teams you are in charge of
• Daily track and review the status of the game, and remove blockers for all on going work

Project, budget and headcount forecasts and follow-up :

• Forecast the required headcount and time development costs
• Manage outsourcers budget, deliveries, service agreements
• Develop and maintain clearly defined development planning methods and workflows
• Track and analyze team metrics to improve processes and guide future decisions

Team management :

• Ensure team members are focused on goals, milestones and quality
• Assist with recruiting and interviewing candidates for positions in the studio
• Assist in training actions: ensure that team members have the right technical skills
• Ensure team members have regular collective and personal feedback from their leads
• Approve absence requests, clock in/out hours

Qualifications

• Analytical and problem-solving aptitude
• Capacity to analyze risk and make contingency plans
• Creative, innovative, proactive, diplomate
• Result-oriented
• Fluent in English
• Experience in managing cross discipline teams
• Ideally have shipped a minimum of 1 AAA game title in a project management role

Overview

Established in 1999, Arkane Lyon is one of the most renowned game development studios and has earned a matchless reputation for creating games with unique style and immersive action. The studio’s titles, which include the Dishonored franchise and more recently DEATHLOOP, have received numerous prestigious accolades around the globe, including hundreds of "Game of the Year" awards.

Joining Arkane Lyon is an opportunity to collaborate and evolve within a passionate team, on cutting-edge technologies and innovative games enjoyed by millions of players. You will work in a stimulating and welcoming environment in our offices located in the Lyon (France) Confluence district, a place of greenery, sports, gastronomy and music.

Arkane Lyon is owned by ZeniMax Media and Microsoft.

Responsibilities

• A good understanding of the constraints coming from the game design, engine and hardware.
• Define the technical constraints relating to the characters and animated objects.
• Integrate the resources into the engine and ensure compliance with the constraints and performance monitoring.
• Create advanced rigs and skinning for characters, creatures, and props.
• Create and support tools to improve the rigging and animation pipeline, according to the project needs.
• Help artistic teams to resolve technical issues.
• Setup of character ragdolls and cloth physics.
• Collaborate and share knowledge on latest technological watch with other technical artists in the studio

Qualifications

• In depth knowledge of Maya and Python
• Outstanding rigging and deformation skills (body/facial).
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate team spirit, autonomy and organization.
• Finding balance between aesthetic, usability, and technical complexity.
• Experience with MotionBuilder is a plus.

Overview

Established in 1999, Arkane Lyon is one of the most renowned game development studios and has earned a matchless reputation for creating games with unique style and immersive action. The studio’s titles, which include the Dishonored franchise and more recently DEATHLOOP, have received numerous prestigious accolades around the globe, including hundreds of "Game of the Year" awards.

Joining Arkane Lyon is an opportunity to collaborate and evolve within a passionate team, on cutting-edge technologies and innovative games enjoyed by millions of players. You will work in a stimulating and welcoming environment in our offices located in the Lyon (France) Confluence district, a place of greenery, sports, gastronomy and music.

Arkane Lyon is owned by ZeniMax Media and Microsoft.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the programming team and content team in the implementation of tools and graphic features related to art/content creation.
• Create content to validate new rendering features in development.
• Test new tools/render features before deployment into production.
• Contribute to ensuring that feature/tool interfaces are user-friendly & efficient.
• Suggest improvements and find solutions for tools used on the project.
• Collaborate with technical teams to diagnose and resolve in-game problems.
• Monitor & help drive framerate and memory optimization of the game.
• Regularly communicate technical constraints and their reasons to the content teams.
• Offer technical support to the Content team in day-by-day production issues. (Game, Tools,…)
• Create and maintain documentation for tools, conventions and procedures.
• Share with the content teams best-practices and new tools.
• Create, organize, and lead training sessions so that all members of the content team can properly use the tools and methods.
• Remain informed of new technical and technological developments
• Investigate new techniques, assist in prototyping and help other developers with technical roadblocks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a technical artist on AAA productions
• Strong artistic background (a good artistic eye is a necessity!)
• Attention to detail from both technical and artistic perspectives.
• Relevant technical experience in performance, optimization and methodology. 
• Basic knowledge of real-time rendering challenges and techniques.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Fast and willing learner. Ability to adapt to new technologies.
• A great ability to think creatively to overcome technical challenges.
• Ability to create technical documentation.
• Ability to transmit knowledge effectively, to train.
• Great communication skills, with a positive and constructive attitude.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical parties.
• Good English oral and written skills

Overview

Established in 1999, Arkane Lyon is one of the most renowned game development studios and has earned a matchless reputation for creating games with unique style and immersive action. The studio’s titles, which include the Dishonored franchise and more recently DEATHLOOP, have received numerous prestigious accolades around the globe, including hundreds of "Game of the Year" awards.

Joining Arkane Lyon is an opportunity to collaborate and evolve within a passionate team, on cutting-edge technologies and innovative games enjoyed by millions of players. You will work in a stimulating and welcoming environment in our offices located in the Lyon (France) Confluence district, a place of greenery, sports, gastronomy and music.

Arkane Lyon is owned by ZeniMax Media and Microsoft.

Responsibilities

• Production of lighting for real-time video games environments
• Production of lighting for real-time cinematics
• Visual research through the creation of synthetic documentation
• Integrate and merge gameplay, visual and technical intentions with elegance
• Maintain a consistent lighting style that matches visual direction across multiple environments
• Manage the content related to light entities: request, tracking, object integration, FXs, ...
• Collaborate and communicate smoothly with Level Artists, Environment Artists, Level Designers, VFX, Technical Artists …
• Ensure that all lighting deliverables are fully completed and in line with the production schedule
• Anticipate challenges and propose solutions to solve technical and design constraints
• Cultivate a positive workplace culture

Qualifications

• Have already completed at least one full production
• Lighting / color theories knowledges
• Be familiar with other 3D software such as Blender and Unreal Engine
• Good artistic culture: illustrations, paintings, photography, cinematography; excellent sense of composition; and interest for video games
• Strive for excellence in order to complete assigned tasks in a timely manner while maintaining a high level of quality
• Team spirit: ability to cooperate easily with different people and teams; positive and altruistic attitude

Overview

Established in 1999, Arkane Lyon is one of the most renowned game development studios and has earned a matchless reputation for creating games with unique style and immersive action. The studio’s titles, which include the Dishonored franchise and more recently DEATHLOOP, have received numerous prestigious accolades around the globe, including hundreds of "Game of the Year" awards.

Joining Arkane Lyon is an opportunity to collaborate and evolve within a passionate team, on cutting-edge technologies and innovative games enjoyed by millions of players. You will work in a stimulating and welcoming environment in our offices located in the Lyon (France) Confluence district, a place of greenery, sports, gastronomy and music.

Arkane Lyon is owned by ZeniMax Media and Microsoft.

Responsibilities

• Create animation for gameplay and narratives sequences (keyframed or using mocap)
• Prototyping, in-game integration, testing & polishing
• Respect visual style defined by art direction
• Participate in motion capture sessions

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of Maya
• Excellent understanding of the principles of animation (timing, spacing, posing)
• Excellent understanding of body mechanics
• Solid keyframing experience
• Experience with game engine
• Knowledge of Motion Builder
• Mocap editing experience
• Team spirit

*Please include a portfolio/demoreel to your application