Technical Artist, Metaverse - Meta

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, first-party infrastructure, systems, and tools for our platform aimed at shaping the metaverse.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Artist, Metaverse Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to develop content 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 from artists and end users through to deployment.
• Prototype, profile and optimize custom shaders.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience developing real-time experiences.
• Demonstrated expertise with at least one of the following pipelines: Environments, Character, Rigging, Runtime Behaviors, or Asset Pipeline.
• You understand architecture for complex tools and pipelines with a focus on content creators.
• Experience in shader languages (GLSL, ShaderLab, HLSL).
• Experience with game/real-time profiling and optimization techniques.
• Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams.
• Expertise working with version control systems (Git, Perforce, etc.), using advanced workflows.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred Qualifications:

• Expertise in at least one low-level programming language (C++ preferred).
• Deep knowledge of real-time graphics pipeline concepts.
• Self-driven with a focus on the end product.