Keywords Studios Australia, consists of Wicked Workshop (Vic), Tantalus Media (SA, Qld, Vic), and Mighty Games. In 2023 we added over 70 new, talented individuals surpassing 250 employees in Australia. We're anticipating similar growth for 2024. Whilst we're backed by a highly successful parent company, we still enjoy the intimacy and independent studio feels. If you're a passionate, collaborative, can-do, delivery focused individual, we'd love to hear from you. 

Tantalus South is located in Adelaide and employs some of the best talent in video games South Australia has to offer. Some would even say in Australia. With over twenty staff members, 2024 will see us continue to add to this high achieving, quality driven, fun loving team. Experienced professionals with prior experience in shipping AAA games across Console, PC, or Nintendo, we're keen to speak with you. 

Tantalus South are looking for a Technical Artist specializing in VFX and shaders, to join our team in our Adelaide CBD Studio. 

As a Technical Artist (VFX), your role is to craft and integrate dynamic real-time visual effects, help improve technical pipelines, workflows and VFX creation techniques / tools, and support overall art creation and optimization.

Responsibilities 

• Create or re-invent VFX and shaders. 
• Confidently communicate with other disciplines, including 3D art and engineering, to facilitate solutions that push the project forward. 
• Support art content production by advancing art pipelines, workflows and methodologies. 
• Develop tools and processes that facilitate content authoring with an emphasis on user experience, quality and productivity. 
• Asset optimisation, integration, performance profiling and validation. 
• Collaborate with other Technical Artists to maintain and further improve on project / studio tools and workflows. 
• Create and maintain technical documentation. 
• Assist with asset creation or re-invention in domains outside your area of expertise if needed. 
• Expectations 
• Proactively identify problems and propose, test and document solutions. 
• Research and explore new technologies and techniques and keep up-to-date with the latest trends in game development. 
• Share learnings and best practices, workflows and new tools with the wider team. 
• Be available for technical support for the art and animation team. 
• Actively demonstrate a desire to learn and grow professionally. 
• Contribute towards a positive and supportive company culture. 
• Requirements 
• Approx. 10+ years of Games Industry experience (Senior). 
• Experience in art and animation content creation. 
• Strong attention to detail, able to multi-task and adapt to change. 
• Artistic eye and solid understanding of art pipeline. 
• Proficiency in scripting and coding in one or more of the following - Python, C#, C++, HLSL, MEL, MaxScript. 
• Knowledge of industry DCC packages – Maya, 3DS Max, Blender, Adobe Suite – with strong foundational knowledge in at least one. 
• Current development experience with Unity, UE4 or UE5. 
• Skills and interest in - Shader development, Pipeline and tool development, VFX / Particles, Real-time physics simulations. 
• A passion for games, an interest and awareness in the latest trends, tools, technology and approaches in creating content. 
• Strong time management and problem-solving skills. 
• Effective communication skills. 
• Bonus Skills 
• Skills and interest in one or more areas - Character rigging, Procedural asset generation, Lighting, Real-time rendering and post-effects, Asset optimisation and performance profiling. 
• Experience in AAA game development. 
• Familiarity with Maya API. 
• Experience with Houdini and Substance Designer. 
• Experience with console development – Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox. 
• Traditional art / drawing / painting / photography skills. 

• Benefits 
• Competitive Market Rate Remuneration. 
• Employee Assistance Program. 
• We offer a range of flexible working arrangements including - full-time, compressed week, and hybrid work. 
• Benefits and discounts through our employee portal, Employment Hero. 
• Best of both worlds - perks of a global business with the intimacy of a small business. 
• Opportunity to work on a diverse range of next generation games and collaborate with some of the best in the industry. 
• Wellbeing reimbursement for purchases relating to your health. 

Role Information: EN

Studio: Tantalus

Location: APAC, Australia, Adelaide

Area of Work: Art services

Service: Create

Employment Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full Time, Hybrid

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

About the Role (your why)

Working as a Desktop Support Engineer you will be responsible for the provision of all aspects of End User Services to Datacom’s customers. Aligned to our customers business requirements, we provide tailored maintenance services, hardware and software break/ fix support, remote support, software deployment and relocation services.

This role will be based on-site in Albury. Please note to be eligible for this role you must be an Australian Citizen and able to obtain an AGSVA Baseline clearance. 

What you’ll do

At the moment, as Desktop Support Engineer you will be focused on:

• Providing excellent technical support in a high-paced environment where customer satisfaction is paramount.
• Assisting new users with their IT hardware collection and setup.
• Ensuring new equipment, such as Laptops and Mobile phones, are up to date and deployment ready prior to release to customers
• Recording all customer contacts in the appropriate ITSM tool
• Keeping commitments to customers with regard to progress updates
• Using tools and processes to deliver services to customers in accordance with SLAs
• Proactively manage and maintain customer infrastructure as directed
• Initiate and drive service and process improvement

We are a pretty agile company, and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs.

What you’ll bring

Required experience:

• Exceptional customer experience with regard to end user services
• The ability to prioritise work to ensure achievement of all service level agreements
• Sound knowledge of Laptops, Desktop PC's, printers, media and audio-visual equipment, BYOD and mobility

Nice to have:

• You will bring excellent verbal and written communication and have the ability to articulate technical information to the target audience. Your professional customer service will be second to none, and you will have the ability to work autonomously with excellent time management.

Why join us here at Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.

About the Role

Crown Equipment is currently seeking an individual to join the technology team based in our Perth location as a Technology Solutions Advisor. If you are looking for a dynamic, engaging and customer centric role focused on industrial technology, this opportunity is for you. In your next role you will be solution orientated, advising customers on the best technology products for their application. 

The Technology Solutions Advisor will utilise telematics data to assist customers with the most appropriate technology products for their application. In this role, you will be solution orientated, joining our APAC team working with a variety of 3PL, retail, FMCG, pharmaceutical, grocery, manufacturing, production, and defence customers to provide unique offerings for their applications within Crown’s technology portfolio. You will work with a team including support, project management, and account management to bring these solutions to realisation.

Responsibilities & Duties Include

• Retain & develop existing technology products business through customer site visits.
• Communicate key data points for quarterly business reviews to local Crown Account Manager 
• Build relationships with customers, building trust to ensure a solid foundation for presenting data-based findings. 
• Attend customer sites and present the technology product range where necessary. 
• Work with the existing customer base to transition them to the most suitable technology product offering for their needs. 
• Attend product training sessions & maintain a high level of Crown product & industry knowledge. 
• Assist in the development and maintenance of technical documentation. 

Skills & Experience

• Intermediate computer skills, including intermediate knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite
• Customer Service experience is desired
• Administration experience 
• Strong organisational skills
• Good time management skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Must be willing to travel up to 1 - 2 weeks per month for customer meetings as required from time to time
• Drivers License

What sets us apart?

Crown’s history began when two brothers founded the Company in New Bremen, Ohio (USA) in 1945. Today, the fourth generation of the very same family continues to lead Crown in all of its operations across the globe. Being a family-owned and run business is evidenced by more than 200 employees reaching service milestones in our 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 year categories in Australia alone, with more than 2,000 employees reaching a 25 year service milestone globally. 

As a Company we want to continue to support our employees to be the best versions of themselves and that’s why, as a Crown employee you get to enjoy:

• A benefits program which gives you access to discounts and cashback from over 400+ retailers nation wide.
• Access to a health and wellbeing platform which supports your Mental, Physical and Financial goals.
• Corporate Rates for Private Health Insurance.
• An inclusive working environment.
• An Employee Assistance Program for confidential counselling with chat, phone and face to face counselling options.

​The Company

Crown Equipment is a well-respected global Materials Handling Equipment company which has enjoyed over 50 years of success in the Australian market. The Company has operations in all Australian States and territories as well as many regional locations. The Crown Brand is well known and respected in the marketplace and is supported by a customer value proposition based on highly skilled staff, quality products, strong service and parts back-up, and leading-edge technology.