Job Description

Meta Reality Labs - W2 Contract - Remote

Technical Artist - Avatar Development

Meta reality Labs is seeking a talented Technical Artist with experience in game development or similar industries to join their team! In this position you will be working on the next evolution of Meta's Avatars, developing Animated Avatar pipelines to make the process more scalable and helping to push the artistic appeal. This entails working closely with Art and Engineering to develop and support the asset pipeline, animation and rigging tools, animation rigs, and real-time effects.

Preferred Skills (Not Required):

• Experience in working with Unreal Engine
• Skilled in character animation, preferably within the gaming industry
• Creativity, verbal and written communication skills and problem solving ability are required.
• Expert verbal and written communication skills; communication across teams including engineers and artists
• Expert ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
• Expert ability in creating tools and automation for one or more packages like Maya, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, Marmoset, Photoshop, etc
• Expert in game profiling and optimization techniques
• Experience shipping products with stringent runtime performance constraints, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games
• Expert leadership and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the engineering and technical art teams in defining and developing content
• 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 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

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience required