A Technical Artist is the key bridge between artists and engineers. One of Insight Global's top media and technology clients is currently looking for a passionate Technical Artist to closely work with a multidisciplinary team to build new cutting-edge social experiences in Augmented and Virtual Reality. In this role, you will be helping bring to life various VR experiences on our current and upcoming headsets.
Responsibilities:
- Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to develop content for our current and future headsets.
- Implement runtime logic within a complex real-time environment with performance limitations in mind.
- Prototype, profile and optimize custom shaders
- Optimize content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modeling and texturing best practices.
- Triage incoming bugs for existing VR experiences, troubleshoot and implement solutions with the partnership of the engineering team.
- Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety of technical and artistic tasks, including diagnosing and fixing bugs.
- Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment.
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- 5+ years of professional experience shipping products with stringent runtime performance constraints, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games.
- Experience with game/real-time profiling and optimization techniques.
- Experience with real-time scripting in a game engine, preferably Unity with JavaScript, C++ or C# , or Python.
- Experience in shader languages (GLSL, ShaderLab, HLSL).
- Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience communicating across team members including engineers and artists.
- Experience in real-time content authoring (characters/environments/VFX/animation/lighting).
- Experience working with version control systems (Git, Perforce, etc.)
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st 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.