Job Description

JOB DUTIES:
Qualcomm Game Studios is seeking a skilled staff technical artist with Unity and/or Unreal Engine experience to work directly with our development team, design leads, and art director to help create and implement cutting edge characters, effects, and game elements in AR – VR – XR – PC and 3D mobile games. The ideal candidate should be a self-motivated problem solver able to create 3D character rigs and facial controls and implement animation control systems through blueprints in UE4. Real-time optimization of game assets and particles and knowledge of a cross platform game development pipelines is a plus.
Minimum Qualifications
• 5+ years’ experience rigging/skinning characters in Maya on a shipped MMO, mobile, PC, or console game.
• Demo Reel with shot breakdown showing rigging / simulation and technical proficiency.
• Game production experience and tech fluency in one development scripting language such as Python, MEL, C# or C++.
• Solid understanding of rigging realistic humanoid characters and creatures (FPS rigs a plus), with high proficiency in character skinning, physics, and technical workflows.
• Experience creating custom tools, and a wide suite of content authoring tools currently used in the industry.
• Strong debugging skills, ability to fix and troubleshoot workflow issues in artist software, version control systems, and rendering issues within game engines.
• Ability to create art content that is performant for runtime and appropriate for modern mobile & console game hardware.
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with multiple disciplines.
• Strong ability to work independently.
• Experience supporting art teams in game development environment.
• Demo materials link is required & should include sample visuals of characters, projects, rigs or production tools.
Preferred Qualifications
• BFA, BA, or Computer Science degree or equivalent on the job experience.
• Solid understanding of Maya, Unity, and Unreal Engine (including Unreal’s A.R.T. rigging system) and/or Advanced Skeleton.
• Visual scripting experience a plus = Unreal’s blueprint system.
• Extensive Unreal 4 blueprint or Unity 5 experience scripting.
• Experience with rigging cloth & hair in real-time engine.
• Experience creating complex materials in Unity or Unreal game engines within technical limits/constraints.
• Experience with Android OS and Android application development.
• Experience working on AAA games as a technical artist.
• Understanding of VR and AR mobile limitations and requirements.
• Passionate about gaming, well versed in modern game design techniques and best practices.
Education Requirements
Preferred: A BS in Computer Science or BFA or BA degree in art, design graphics, or have received equivalent on-the-job experience.
Keywords
UI, UX, AR, VR, XR, Gaming, Gameplay, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Unreal, Unreal Engine 4, Quixel, Substance, Maya, 3DS Max, Unity, UE4, User Experience, Design, User Interface, Animation, Technical Artist, Scripting, MEL, Python, Pearl, Blueprint, scripting
About the Company
At the heart of the Qualcomm Game Studios, we are passionate about next generation gaming technologies and delivering exceptional gaming experiences across all platforms. Our highly creative teams are full of veteran game developers, game artists, game engine experts and graphics enthusiast who work on our latest GPUs and Gaming hardware innovations around Mobile, PC, VR and AR. We have many great gaming positions open right now we feel you would be a good fit for our gaming team here. Maybe I can put you in contact with the Qualcomm Game Studios team so you can chat with them about these positions in depth.
Urgent backfill request; Position is going to be working remotely until policy is lifted at which point this role will transition to onsite critical.