Technical Artist

We are seeking a dedicated Technical Artist to serve as a crucial link between our artistic and engineering teams. This role involves collaborating closely with a multifaceted, interconnected team dedicated to crafting engaging, first-party infrastructure, systems, and tools for our platform aimed at shaping the metaverse.

Technical Artist Responsibilities:

• Design and develop systems, processes, tooling to validate, prototype, and implement new capabilities in partnership with cross functional teams
• Implement runtime logic, tooling within a complex real-time environment with performance limitations in mind
• Optimize content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modeling and texturing best practices
• Analyze project timelines and resource allocation, proposing adjustments to optimize production schedules through technology and process enhancements
• Document workflows, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency and scalability across teams
• Communicate and advocate for the technical system's role in building a platform that serves billions of users
• Consistently give and take constructive feedback, direct next steps, and communicate clear goals and outcomes to your team

• 6+ years of experience developing real-time experiences across different products
• Experience in at least one low-level programming language (i.e. C++)
• Understanding of architecture for complex tools and pipelines with a focus on content creators
• Expertise with game/real-time profiling and optimization techniques
• Demonstrated experience in communicating technical topics to non technical partners
• Understanding of AI and ML concepts at a core level. (data collection, model training, deployment, runtime performance)

• Proven experience designing and implementing real-time graphics technologies, and their corresponding authoring tools
• Experience with performance profiling and optimizing assets within tight performance budgets
• Proven experience validating rendering outputs to ensure shading consistency on various platforms
• Experience with real-time lighting concepts, color science, color space, exposure, tone mapping, and post-processing effects
• Experience partnering with a cross-functional teams of artists, designers and engineers to design end-to-end workflows and authoring tools
• Experience in low level programming languages such as C or C++, in addition to scripting languages such as Python
• Experience designing and implementing real-time graphics technologies, and their corresponding authoring tools