Job Description
A Senior Technical Artist in AI-Powered Game Creation is a hybrid creative and technical leader who leverages AI tools and workflows to accelerate, automate, and elevate the game development process. This role bridges the gap between art, engineering, and AI, driving innovation in how games are designed, built, and iterated.
Job Responsibilities:
• Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to define and develop content
• Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment
• Optimize content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modeling and texturing best practices
• Manage the technical animation pipeline including developing Maya tools and plug-ins for rigging and animation, and hooking up animations
• Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety technical and artistic tasks
• Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads
• Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environment
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Required Skills & Experience
• Maya Python/PyMEL, PySide/PyQt
• Ability to work on game development
• Creativity, verbal and written communication skills and problem-solving ability are required.
• Verbal and written communication skills; communication across teams including engineers and artists
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
• Creating tools and automation for one or more packages such as Maya, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, Knald, Marmoset, Photoshop, etc
• Experience with game profiling and optimization techniques
• Experience shipping products with stringent runtime performance constraints, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.