Sr. Design Technologist, Elevated Shopping

Amazon.com • New York, NY

81d • $138,800 - $239,900

About The Position

Elevated Shopping (eshop) is a newly formed team chartered with creating a best-in-class shopping experience for Premium and Luxury brands. We partner with the most inspiring, creative, and recognizable brands in the world and empower them to tell their personalized story. Elevated Shopping works across Amazon, from Home Page, Search, and Brand Stores to Amazon Fulfillment technologies to give brands and shoppers a delightful, elevated, and high-confidence shopping experience. Elevated Shopping offers a dynamic workplace that is fueled by passionate collaboration. We take pride in developing new technologies and products to provide immersive shopping experiences for the world's largest selection. We are looking for a Sr. Design Technologist to drive content creation innovation with experience in developing GenAI, 2D, and 3D workflows who understands technical problems the team may face from an artistic perspective and provide creative technical solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years working in a computer-graphics related field (VFX, Games, Film, Motion Graphics) in a similar role (Tech Artist, Pipeline TD, Pipeline Engineer, Art Tools Engineer)
• GenAI dev, exploration, and continuous curiosity
• Deep understanding of content creation and delivery process
• Proficiency in a modern programming language
• Experience building and maintaining internal pipelines and toolsets, including user documentation and education
• Experience designing and building artist tools that extend DCC (Digital Content Creation) software packages
• Understanding of current generation of real-time and offline rendering and shader techniques
• Bachelor's Degree

Nice To Haves

• Broad knowledge of Maya, Unreal, Blender, Houdini, and Adobe Substance Suite
• Familiar and up to date with GenAI(ComfyUI)
• Experience with VRay, Unreal, Unity, or equivalent renderers
• Interest or experience with e-commerce rendering trends (WebGL, glTF)
• Experience with Python/C++/C#/Java
• Experience with render farms, distributed rendering, and cloud architecture
• Experience extending creative project management tools (Jira, Shotgun, ftrack)
• Experience working with global outsourcing and contract-based content creation teams
• Ability to analyze and optimize assets for real-time rendering

Responsibilities

• Act as a bridge between art and engineering disciplines to solve multi-disciplinary problems
• Seek out and develop solutions to resolve workflow bottlenecks or asset quality issues through standardization and automation
• Collaborate with other Design Technologists and engineers to build and maintain a centralized suite of content creation products/tools
• Work with art leadership to research and implement the latest industry trends that expand our production capabilities
• Advise on the creation and maintenance of asset pipelines for partner teams looking to adopt 3D content

Benefits

• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees