Meta is hiring : Principal Technical Artist in Richmond

Overview

OURO Interactive is Oculus Studio’s first in-house game studio dedicated exclusively to creating flagship games for Horizon Worlds. As a Principal Tech Artist for OURO Interactive, you’ll be at the forefront of shipping cross-platform VR / MR and mobile experiences for the ever-expanding Horizon metaverse.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain art production workflows and pipelines by creating features, tools, plugins, and scripts to aid artists, reduce pain points, and speed up iteration cycles
• Provide input on the ongoing development of the primary game engine, editor, and tooling to our cross functional partners on other teams
• Maintain and adhere to a consistent art style and ensure technical requirements for assets are enforced
• Optimize environments to keep artistic fidelity as high as possible while maintaining performance
• Support the ingestion of finished art to the game engine, assisting in asset performance and validation
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Train and mentor other artists to grow their technical skills
• Develop the team’s shader tech and implement high-level features and maintain low-level shader code organization and optimization
• Collaborate closely with graphics programming and our core tech teams on features that keep the game performant and achieve the highest artistic standards
• Support the content team in debugging issues with tools, assets, or framerate

Minimum Qualifications

7+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist shipping a major title in a relevant role

Experienced with art and content pipelines and workflows for lighting, VFX, shaders, 2D and 3D art

Highly proficient communication skills and capacity to act as an ambassador between Art, Design, and Engineering

Experience in shader languages (GLSL, ShaderLab, HLSL)

Experience with Game engines such as Unity, Unreal, and creator-facing UGC tools

Experience creating scripts and plugins for DCCs using Python, etc

Working knowledge of Blender and Substance Designer+Painter

Experience in pipelines for high and low-poly modeling, unwrapping, baking, texturing and material creation

Understanding of graphics for rendering, modeling, texturing, shaders, rigging, animation, and lighting

Experience profiling in-game assets and guiding the team in optimization to ensure that art assets are performant and fit within their budgets for draw calls, poly counts, texture memory limits, without compromising artistic quality

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with TypeScript and React

Experience working on and supporting User Generated Content

Experience in Mixed Reality or Mobile pipelines

Experience with integrating AI models, or working with pipelines that have introduced AI integration

C++ graphics programming experience

Demonstrated in-depth experience with real-time graphics pipelines

Experience working in pushing high visual fidelity content in limited hardware

Experience in content creation software as a user or tools developer such as Houdini, Substance Designer, Blender, etc

Compensation

Public Compensation : $181,000 / year to $250,000 / year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry : Internet

Equal Opportunity

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