Remote Senior Technical Artist XR

Remote 3D Artist IV job at Pride Global. California.

Job Title
-3D Artist/Technical Artist IV

Location - Remote

Contract Duration - 4 months contract (Potential to Extend)

Pay Range - $65-$70/hour on W2 (DOE)

Role Summary

We are seeking a dedicated Technical Artist to serve as a crucial link between our artistic and engineering teams. This role involves collaborating closely with a multifaceted, interconnected team dedicated to crafting engaging experiences to demonstrate technology use cases between research and product.

Technical Artist Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to develop experiences across a range of devices.
• Implement runtime logic within a complex real-time environment with performance limitations in mind.
• Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety of technical and artistic tasks, including diagnosing and fixing bugs.
• Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads.
• Design, manage and maintain the pipeline of artists workflows.
• Prototype end-to-end experiences in real-time:
  Environments and Characters
• Consistently give and take constructive feedback, direct next steps, and communicate clear goals and outcomes to your team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Expertise working with Unity
• Expertise in procedural effects and tooling
• Expertise in gaussian splats, scene, and object reconstruction
• 5+ years of experience developing real-time experiences.
• Demonstrated expertise with at least one of the following pipelines:
  Runtime Behaviors, or Asset Pipeline.
• Experience in content authoring packages (e.g. Maya, Houdini, Blender etc.)
• Expertise in at least one low-level programming language
• Expertise working with version control systems (Git, Perforce, etc.), using advanced workflows.
• Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• VR, MR and AR experience
• Knowledge of emerging AI technologies
• Experience with game optimization techniques