Technical Artist, Metaverse

Meta Technical Artist, Metaverse in Washington, District Of Columbia

Summary:

We are seeking a dedicated Technical Artist to serve as a crucial link between our artistic and engineering teams. This role involves collaborating closely with a multifaceted, interconnected team dedicated to crafting engaging, first-party infrastructure, systems, and tools for our platform aimed at shaping the metaverse.

Responsibilities:

1. Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to develop content across a range of devices.
2. Implement runtime logic within a complex real-time environment with performance limitations in mind.
3. Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety of technical and artistic tasks, including diagnosing and fixing bugs.
4. Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads.
5. Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and end users through to deployment.
6. Prototype, profile and optimize custom shaders.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. 5+ years of experience developing real-time experiences.
2. Demonstrated expertise with at least one of the following pipelines: Environments, Character, Rigging, Runtime Behaviors, or Asset Pipeline.
3. Understanding of architecture for complex tools and pipelines with a focus on content creators.
4. Experience with game/real-time profiling and optimization techniques.
5. Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams.
6. Expertise working with version control systems (Git, Perforce, etc.), using advanced workflows.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Expertise in at least one low-level programming language (C++ preferred).
2. Deep knowledge of real-time graphics pipeline concepts.
3. Self-driven with a focus on the end product.

Public Compensation:

$130,000/year to $180,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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