Pipeline Technical Artist

Applied Intuition•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Pipeline Technical Artist/Technical Director to drive the development of our content pipelines and backends. At Applied, you will be responsible for a lot of the technical development inside Unreal and/or the pipelines associated with it. You will assist the pipelining and unit-testing initiatives for automatically triggering procedural content generation and importing this content into Unreal engine. . This position will join an existing team of talented engineers and technical artists with backgrounds in games, VFX, autonomous systems, and robotics.

Requirements

Has 3+ years of experience with Pipeline
Is an expert user of at least one 3D DCC tool (e.g. Maya/Houdini)
Has a solid understanding of Python and game/film pipelines
Can work closely with Engineers to create custom logic as required

Nice To Haves

Experience with Unreal or other real-time engines (e.g. Frostbite, Unity)
Houdini experience
HLSL/GLSL experience
Experience with Machine Learning
Computer Science/Software Engineering background

Responsibilities

Establish content pipelines and standards for others to follow
Create an automated pipeline that can with one button click ingest customer data, run various systems, and create a final package to be used by the client
Work with C++ and Python to create flexible pipelines that plug into Houdini and Unreal
Establish flexible modular pipelines that are maintainable long term
Enforce good Python standards
Work with both Object Sim and Unreal to connect features where needed
Create tools for artists to work efficiently
Assist with the setup and maintenance of a render farm