Technical Artist - High Moon Studios

Activision • Carlsbad, CA

5h • $30 - $55 • Onsite

About The Position

Great Games Start with Great People! This is a significant time in our company’s history – and one of the most exciting times to join us! We are seeking an imaginative, skillful, and versatile Technical Artist to join our team in Carlsbad, California. If you want to work with a fun, collaborative team on the world’s most popular game franchises, then this may be the position you’ve been waiting for! As a Technical Artist at High Moon you’ll be joining a team that’s passionate about high-quality content creation, who think outside the box, and are dedicated to creating optimal pipeline and optimization tools in different areas of content development. The areas of content development can be physically correct art development, lighting and shaders, rigging, animation, or effects. Our team is a multidisciplinary group serving as a bridge between art, design, and engineering. We provide our teams with effective implementation tools, complex assets templates, and final content which must not only meet the high-quality standard but also be optimized to be as efficient as possible. Our team is also responsible for analyzing content performance, advise on, and provide processes to ensure the final content runs at the expected frame rate.

Requirements

• 5+ years' experience working in technical art or technical animation roles
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills catering to engineers and artists as needed
• Thorough knowledge of content creation tools with the ability to create both content and tools to expedite content creation, these can include Photoshop, Maya, Max, Houdini, Substance Designer, etc.
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to break down tasks and assignments and prioritize them into workable pieces on a daily, weekly basis
• Object oriented software design skills using Python, C#, C++, or similar languages.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience

Nice To Haves

• Working knowledge of linear algebra (vector math) as it pertains to 3d environments
• Programming experience in Python and C++
• Experience building Houdini assets

Responsibilities

• Help define the technical quality standards, overseeing the development of art pipelines
• Contribute to the development of artistic techniques and processes utilized to define and achieve a product's visual style and encourage artistic technical evolution within the studio
• Provides input on the technical methods to achieve the artistic goals and vision through all phases of the game development cycle
• Create tools and processes that assist in authoring environment art, VFX, destruction simulations, animation, lighting, and post process effects
• Stays current on industry standard content creation tools and techniques
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Work with other tech artists/engineers to identify and implement art-pipeline optimizations and to create technical benchmarks to be used in production
• Offer technical support to the art team in day-by-day production issues
• Assist in game profiling and generating report to help content creators get their assets within budget

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
• Relocation assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees