Lead the development of a cutting-edge asset generation pipeline for our new real-time, GPU-based ray tracing engine, defining the foundational standards and conventions that will drive future advancements in photorealistic simulation.
Integrate external Digital Content Creation tools such as Maya and Unreal Editor with our simulation and rendering stack.
Build workflows to author assets for our USD based renderer.
Architect and implement advanced content authoring strategies to significantly reduce cloud compute costs, leveraging state-of-the-art techniques in geometry, material, shader, and texture optimization to achieve optimal performance.
Develop systems to validate and monitor asset fidelity and performance, actively analyzing realism perceived by computer vision models.
Develop tools and scripting APIs to automate the creation and management of assets.
Assist artists and engineers via tool development, concept testing of new ideas, and building rapid prototypes.
Work closely with engineers, designers, and researchers to understand testing requirements and translate them into effective simulation environments.
Provide front-line production support across multiple disciplines, troubleshoot assets and scenarios, and help artists with problem-solving.

Requirements

5+ years experience as a technical artist (or equivalent capacity) in visual effects, animation, simulators, 3D games, or other high-performance systems.
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, specifically with a concentration or focus in Computer Graphics
Proven experience creating Python scripts to streamline content creation
Experience with C++ for performance critical engineering and software application development
Strong 3D content pipeline knowledge with a deep understanding of modeling, texturing, animation, and lighting.
Proficient with profiling tools to diagnose performance issues and identify how to optimize scenes.
In-depth knowledge of real-time rendering including physically-based rendering (PBR) pipelines, shader authoring in MDL (or similar shader language) or shader graphs as well as shader performance profiling and optimization.

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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PythonC++3D modelingtexturinganimationlightingshader authoringperformance profilinggeometry optimizationmaterial optimization

problem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationconcept testingrapid prototypingproduction supportanalytical skillscreativityleadershipadaptability

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science