Carpool Studio company
About Carpool® Studio
Carpool is a new video game studio based both in Paris and Montpellier, with a passion for creating the most innovative and exciting multiplayer games.
Created by industry veterans and gathering a human-sized talented team from diverse background and culture, our team is all about bringing life to our unique ideas and focus on AAA execution.
We are thrilling to create games that are fun, challenging, full of pop culture references and willing to bring all players the best engaging and compelling experience possible.
Our first project is a brand-new hybrid genre mixing strategy and fast paced action into a PvP experience. But more than a game, our objective is to create a new IP with transmedia opportunities to expand our narrative and go beyond the video game market.
Carpool is a company that values passion, trust, autonomy, curiosity, honesty, and pragmatism, letting each member to bring their unique perspective and skillset and to add value to our project.
Our employees are at the heart of everything we do and we highly value work/life balance, team interaction and wellbeing when joining Carpool. Are you ready to embark with us on this journey?
Job Purpose
As a junior technical artist, design and implement pipelines, features and tooling on Unreal Engine 5 that will help the different content teams fulfill their needs on different areas of the game, with the game performance targets in priority.
Reports To
Technical Director Engine
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain UI screens and widgets, including the data exchange with game systems.
- Develop and maintain in-editor tools that meet the content teams needs.
- Develop and maintain pipelines for asset functionalities, from import time, in editor use, and in game packaging.
- Write robust and maintainable blueprints to achieve all these goals, collaborating with the tech team in case new blueprint nodes are needed.
- Develop techniques and/or tools to help the content teams respect game performance targets.
Skills and Knowledge
- Great communication and presentation skills.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Extensive experience working with game pipelines, and its modules, middleware and other associated pipelines.
- Strong proficiency in Unreal Engine 5, including blueprints.
- Experience with UMG and Common UI in Unreal Engine a plus.
- Experience with scripting languages like Python is a plus.
- Significant knowledge of common algorithms, data structures and patterns a plus.
- Proficiency in data management software ( Perforce ) and its application.
- Proven ability to debug defects of a reasonable complexity.
- Experience with 3D modeling and texturing tools is a plus.
Relevant Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in programming or equivalent experience is a plus.
- Has contributed to at least 1 title as a Technical Artist.
- Experience using Unreal 4 or 5 is mandatory.
Qualities that could make a difference
- Pop Culture galore
- Love for multiplayer games
- Experience in team management
- Experience in multiplayer games ( PvP or PvE )
Other information and benefits
- Game Engine: UNREAL 5
- Benefits: Relocation package ( if needed )
- Health Insurance, Income Protection, Pension
- Location : Paris or Montpellier
- Contract: CDI w/probation period
- Beginning date: Q2 2025
Carpool® is committed to encouraging a supportive, diverse and inclusive culture among our teams and dedicated to eliminating discrimination.
Please do not forget to include a portfolio proving your skills and personality alongside your application
