Principal Technical Artist - Sledgehammer Games
About The Position
As a Principal Technical Artist, you will provide support building and delivering key technologies and workflows that enable artists and designers to quickly implement visual content into our games. The ideal candidate will have a strong eye for art quality and knowledge of real-time requirements and constraints. You will act as a bridge between art and engineering, demonstrating superior communication skills to facilitate problem solving between departments while adding new ideas, new techniques, and working with the latest technologies to create world-class games. Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
Requirements
- Advanced understanding of one or more commercially available real-time engines (e.g. UE4, Unity, CryEngine).
- Artistic eye with advanced understanding of the creation & integration of 3D art
- Advanced understanding of modern DCC tools
- Shipped at least 2 AAA titles from start to finish on multiple platforms (e.g. PS4, Xbox-One.)
- Excellent communication skills, especially with regards to illustrating technical processes.
- Proficiency with Python, HLSL,GLSL
- Experience working as a lead
Nice To Haves
- C++ experience or Computer Science degree
- Extensive portfolio with examples of professional work (e.g. art, scripts, tools, simulations, etc.)
- Blueprint or asset scripting abilities
- Has managed and mentored a team
Responsibilities
- Identifies and executes solutions to pipeline and technical inefficiencies within the studio
- Collaborate with other discipline leads to improve studio tools
- Establish consistent and optimal best practices
- Proactively identify problems, propose solutions and seek out buy-in regarding implementation strategy
- Demonstrate Leadership by mentoring junior and senior Technical Artist on team
- Great communication skills to communicate with both technical and non-technical cross-functional team members and stakeholders
- Self-starter who is able to identify and drive the priorities of team and work with production to buildout a roadmap
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision
- Health savings account or health reimbursement account
- Healthcare spending accounts
- Dependent care spending accounts
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) with Company match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Charitable donation matching
- Paid holidays and vacation
- Paid sick time
- Floating holidays
- Compassion and bereavement leaves
- Parental leave
- Mental health & wellbeing programs
- Fitness programs
- Free and discounted games
- Variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- Relocation assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
