Meta's Reality Labs is looking for a Technical Artist to join our avatars team. The avatars team creates and maintains the system that powers our avatars used across our family of apps, including all of our Metaverse initiatives in VR/AR. As a Technical Artist working on tools and pipelines, you will have the opportunity to work closely with designers, engineers, and other technical artists to help bring characters to life. Characters who are part of our apps that are used by billions of users around the world.
Technical Artist | Avatars Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain a wide array of existing workflows and tools
- Partner closely with art, engineering, user-experience, product management, and other teams to develop content in modern real-time environments
- Design, manage and maintain the content pipeline from asset creation through deployment
- Quickly innovate and solve issues with cross-functional teams
- Ability to collaborate and iterate based on the team's evolving needs
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- 5+ years of experience in game development or the tech industry operating as a Technical Artist
- Experience with Python, C#
- Experience in character rigging technologies
- Familiarity with DCC tools such as Maya
- Familiarity with game development engines such as Unity, Unreal
- Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience with real time asset implementation and optimization techniques
- Experience communicating across team members including engineers, artists and production staff
- Experience building tools, plug-ins and designing workflows for content production
- Comprehensive understanding of how to build content for real time performance
- Experience with animation system
- Knowledge of emerging technologies
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
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