Technical Artist - London, United Kingdom - Huntress

Huntress

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

A global powerhouse within the social media industry is looking for a Technical Artist to join their team in London on an initial 6 month contract with the option to work remotely on occasion.

A Technical Artist is the key bridge between artists and engineers, and their Creative Engineering team is currently looking for a passionate team member to closely work with a multidisciplinary team to build new cutting-edge social experiences in Augmented Reality.

In this role, you will be creating complex and optimised experiences across a variety of products.

Technical Artist Responsibilities:

Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to develop content across a range of devices and give feedback on Tooling.
Implement runtime logic within a complex realtime environment with performance limitations in mind.
Prototype, profile and optimise custom shaders.
Optimise content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modelling and texturing best practices.
Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety of technical and artistic tasks, including diagnosing and fixing bugs.
Quickly solve issues with crossfunctional leads.
Thrive in a dynamic, fastpaced environment.
Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment.

Skills / Experience Required

Demonstrated expertise at understanding inner workings of a realtime game engine (Unity, Unreal, etc)
Experience with game/realtime profiling and optimisation techniques.
Experience with realtime scripting.
Experience in shader languages (GLSL, ShaderLab, HLSL).
Experience collaborating on multidisciplinary teams.
Experience communicating across team members including engineers and artists.
Experience in realtime content authoring (characters/environments/VFX/animation/lighting).
Experience working with version control systems (Git, Perforce, etc.)

Preferred Skills / Experience