Job Description

A Technical Artist is the key bridge between artists and engineers, and Facebook Reality Labs is currently looking for a passionate team member to closely work with graphics programmers to build the next cutting-edge real-time graphics and technology for VR/AR.

• Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to define and develop content
• Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment
• Optimize content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modeling and texturing best practices
• Prototype, profile and optimize shaders
• Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety of technical and artistic tasks
• Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads
• 3+ years experience with Maya Python/PyMEL, PySide/PyQt
• 3+ years of experience in game development as a Technical Artist
• Experience with game profiling and optimization techniques
• Experience working with shaders
• Experience creating 3D art pipeline tools
• Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience communicating across team members including engineers and artists
• Experience making tools and automation for one or more packages like Maya, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, Knald, Marmoset, Photoshop, etc.
• Experience shipping products with stringent runtime performance constraints, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games
• Knowledge of low level real-time graphics pipeline concepts
• Experience with Unity
• Experience working with Git
• Virtual reality experience (Rift, Vive, GearVR, etc.)
• Knowledge of emerging technologies
  
  

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