Senior Technical Artist

Antioch

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About The Position

Antioch is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to join their team, focusing on developing a sim-ready asset pipeline. This role involves building content and pipeline tools to ensure the simulation platform is high-fidelity, performant, and reusable. The position requires working across procedural and hand-crafted environment design, character animation pipelines, real-time visual FX, and physics systems. This is an early-stage, high-ownership role where the work will directly impact leading robotics, autonomy, and perception teams, contributing to the safer, faster, and more cost-effective deployment of physical autonomous systems. The ideal candidate thrives in a 0 -> 1 environment and wants their work to directly influence the success of autonomous systems in the real world.

Requirements

• Strong portfolio demonstrating procedural thinking and custom tooling for real-time game engine or VFX pipelines, with a preference for Python.
• Deep knowledge of PBR materials and custom shader design, with significant experience in MDL, MaterialX, or Unreal Engine shader networks.
• Experience building tools for procedural scene creation, with expertise in Unreal Engine PCG, Houdini, or Blender's Geometry Nodes.
• Expertise in Gaussian splatting and generative 3D modelling approaches.
• A track record of shipping production-ready capabilities, not just prototypes.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience with NVIDIA Omniverse and/or Isaac Sim.
• Deep knowledge of USD pipelines.
• Experience with NVIDIA's Newton or Warp libraries.
• Prior work on synthetic data generation, simulation, robotics, or autonomy.
• Experience with Metahuman pipelines and procedural character animation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Python tools to enhance the sim-ready USD asset pipeline.
• Engage in procedural environment creation.
• Process character animation.
• Develop Gaussian splat tooling.
• Create CAD-to-realtime pipelines.
• Configure robotic assets.
• Design custom MDL shaders.
• Create real-time dynamic FX.
• Research and implement bleeding-edge asset creation and processing solutions focused on simulation-readiness, configured for accurate physics and sensor-ready materials across camera, radar, lidar, and infrared simulation domains.
• Create high-quality environments from various sources (customer-provided, internally designed, asset-store sourced).
• Partner directly with customers and internal sim engineers to create environments, assets, and systems for simulating frontier autonomous solutions.
• Act as a key representative of Antioch in customer conversations and site visits.
• Work alongside founders, other technical artists, and software engineers.

Benefits

• High ownership with end-to-end system responsibility.
• Fast iteration and direct customer feedback.
• Opportunity to work with a founding team with experience from leading companies like Google Deepmind, Tesla Autopilot, and Meta Reality Labs.
• Influence engineering culture, product direction, and company strategy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed