3D Technical Artist

SAS•, Remote

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Games Analytics and Digital Twins team is looking for a 3D Technical Artist to build the environments, characters, models and effects behind our next generation of digital twins. Our team sits between art and engineering, producing optimized, production-ready assets that run in real-time simulation and generate synthetic data for analytics and machine learning. This is a role for someone who cares equally about how something looks and how fast it runs. One week you may be rigging MetaHumans for a workforce simulation, the next turning a customer's CAD drawings into an accurate factory floor, then chasing down a frame-time regression in Unreal Insights. Few technical art roles let you watch your assets feed an analytics platform and shape decisions customers make about real facilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Game Art, Animation, Computer Graphics or a related field.
Minimum 5 years of professional experience as a 3D Technical Artist, Character Artist or in a similar role.
Strong proficiency with Unreal Engine 5, particularly MetaHuman Creator, Control Rig and Animation Blueprints, plus Maya, Blender or a comparable package for modeling, rigging and animation.
Solid understanding of real-time rendering, performance optimization and PBR material workflows, including character retargeting, facial animation and motion capture cleanup.
Experience working in a version-controlled content pipeline (Perforce, Plastic SCM or Git).
Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Nice To Haves

Collaborating – Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals.
Quality Orientation – Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how detailed; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time.
Technology Savvy – Leveraging practical knowledge of recent technology tools, solutions and trends to improve work results, solve work problems and take advantage of new business opportunities.
Experience with Python or Blueprint scripting to automate asset workflows.
Knowledge of Niagara, subsurface scattering materials, or Groom systems for hair.
Background in synthetic data generation, computer vision or simulation environments.
Understanding of technical art pipelines for producing AI and machine learning training datasets.

Responsibilities

Create and modify model assets for simulation environment creation in Unreal Engine, including setting up and troubleshooting basic and custom collision volumes.
Implement optimized lighting, post-process and camera effects with a focus on balancing visual quality against real-time performance.
Create, customize and rig MetaHuman characters for real-time applications in Unreal Engine 5, and implement facial and body animation using Control Rig, Sequencer or motion capture data.
Identify, communicate and resolve visual performance bottlenecks and defects using Unreal Editor and Unreal Insights.
Collaborate with the engineering team to transform 2D drawings (DXF, DWG, CAD) into accurate 3D spaces.
Maintain efficient asset organization, naming conventions and version control standards across the content pipeline.
Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization's secure software development goals.
Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan.
Pharmacy that will ship prescriptions for no additional charge.
An industry-leading 401k plan.
Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development
Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.