Sr. Design Technologist, Elevated Shopping

Amazon•New York, NY

11d

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 Techonologist 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. This role is for if you want to be a part of: - Driving the success and adoption of emerging GenAI driven 2D/3D experiences across Amazon - Partnering with world-class artists and scientists to drive innovation in e-commerce content creation

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

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