Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• An AR Technical Artist is responsible for implementation and execution of first party augmented reality content in Facebook’s Spark AR Platform.
• As part of the Creative Engineering team in Facebook Reality Labs, you will be building innovative, and modular content across various product surfaces.
• This entails working very closely with Design, Engineering, and the Product teams.
• Day to day, you will be responsible for solving technical challenges in the most creative ways, by showcasing the use of bleeding edge technology, while optimizing for billions of users.

REPOSIBILITIES:

• 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

SKILLS:

• 4-5+ years of experience working in a real-time product environment, such as video games/mobile games, virtual reality/augmented reality in a professional setting (not personal projects).
• Experience working with procedural artwork and content generation.
• Solid understanding of computer graphics pipeline.
• Experience working with shaders, either in written form GLSL/HLSL, or in visual shading such as Substance Designer
• Expertise in content authoring software’s and pipelines, with focus on real-time products such as Maya, Houdini, Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine
• Expertise in game profiling and optimization techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts in a simple manner.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully working in self-motivated environments

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Educational background, or demonstrated experience in computer science
• Functional/reactive programming experience.
• Experience in authoring in Spark AR platform
• Experience in creating game, or graphics focused products in JavaScript or JavaScript-based frameworks.
• Experience in writing web-applications

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

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