Senior Pipeline Technical Artist (SFD / Cinematics) | Irvine, CA
About The Position
Blizzard Entertainment's cinematics team is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Pipeline Technical Artist to support and develop our production pipeline. You will work closely with artists and other developers to design and improve workflows, build tools, and provide technical support. You should have a broad knowledge of tools and workflows currently used in the game industry, familiarity with CG/VFX, as well as direct experience with digital asset management and pipeline tool development. Excellent communication skills are a must. This role is a hybrid work position, with some work on-site and some work-from-home. The home studio for this role is Irvine, CA. This is a full-time staff position.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in developing pipeline tools and workflows in a CG production environment
- Experience with real-time asset implementation and optimization
- Experience with PyQt / PySide development
- Experience shipping content produced in Unreal, bonus points for cinematic content (rendered or real-time)
- Excellent knowledge of Unreal, including scripting (blueprints, Python, HLSL)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong knowledge of Python and object-oriented programming practices
- Strong working knowledge of Maya
- Strong understanding of the CG production process, from asset creation to final implementation
- A team-oriented approach to your work and understanding of the importance of collaboration.
- Self-motivated ability to proactively solve problems
- Strong desire to function in a technical support role
- Solid understanding of the game development process outside of technical art
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Substance Painter & Designer
- Experience with Pixar's USD file format
- Familiarity with Blizzard games and cinematics
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support for artists in production
- Maintain our existing code base and develop new libraries and tools as necessary
- Contribute to the design and development of our production workflows
- Mentor the team around you to ensure art is technically compliant and performant
- Directly contribute to establishing and improving artist workflows
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, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
- If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
