Job Description
Day to Day
One of Insight Global’s top media and technology clients is searching for a Technical Artist to build AR experiences that will appear in multiple different areas of their business and products. In this role you will work closely with engineers and artists to create virtual augment reality experiences. This candidate will work to develop experiences as well as craft the logic behind them. We are looking for a true technical artist, as this role will be a 80% programming, 20% artistic duties.
Responsibilities include:
- Partner closely, and consult when necessary, the engineering and design teams in defining and developing first party AR content
- Execute creative and technical direction by implementing assets and logic together in Spark AR Studio through JavaScript API, GLSL, visual shaders and visual scripting.
- Optimize content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modeling and texturing best practices
- 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
Desired Skills and Experience
- 4-5+ years of experience in a real-time product environment, such as video games/mobile games, VR/AR in a professional setting (not personal projects).
- Substance Designer or Houdini for procedural artwork and content generation
- Experience working with shaders, either in written GLSL/HLSL or visual shading such as substance designer
- Experience with real-time content authoring software such as Maya, Blender, Unity, or Unreal Engine
- Experience with game profiling and optimization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
-Experience handling multiple projects concurrently; ability to context switch easily and often
Plusses
- Educational background or demonstrated experience in computer science
- Functional/reactive programming experience
- Experience working in Facebook’s Spark AR platform
- Experience creating game, or graphics-focused products in JavaScript or JavaScript-based frameworks.