Job Description

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 Reality.

In this role, you will be helping bring various AR experiences on our current and upcoming headsets..

Technical Artist, Reality Labs 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 AR 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.

Desired Skills and Experience

- 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# (in that order).

- 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.)

Plusses

- Deep knowledge of low level real-time graphics pipeline concepts.

- Experience working in AR Frameworks (Spark/Snap/TikTok)

- Experience writing Javascript applications or games.

- Being passionate and informed about emerging technologies.

Self-motivated, product thinking mindset