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Senior 3D Generalist / Technical Artist

Job Description :

The Solutions Design Department at Magic Leap is seeking a senior 3d generalist / technical artist to help with both 3D content creation and pipeline development. Working in a highly collaborative environment, this role will work closely with artists, designers, prototypers and engineers. This role will also work with our Avatar group, helping to innovate and build on our communication, collaboration and co-presence capabilities. This candidate is forward-thinking, driven and willing to embrace the challenges of developing for Magic Leap’s spatial computing platform.

Qualifications :

• 5 or more years working in the video game, interactive or related industry.
• Shipped a game, app, experience, or equivalent 3d interactive software.
• Expert at Maya as well as game engines like Unity/Unreal.
• Strong knowledge of content creation pipelines, automation, and workflows.
• Experience in 3D asset creation for mobile platforms including modeling, texturing and look dev.
• Experience in character modeling, deformation and anatomy.
• Good grasp of real-time graphics principles including: PBR rendering, shading models, asset optimization and profiling.
• Ability to work out of your comfort zone to do what has not been done before.
• Open and responsive to guidance and direction from both creative and technical leadership.

Responsibilities :

• Work with Art, Design and the Avatar group to help build and improve the content creation pipeline, 3d assets and technical art features.
• Model, texture and look develop 3D art assets.
• Support Avatar development pipeline, including modeling, blend shapes, and skin weighting.
• Be the glue between engineering, design and art to create and improve 3d workflows, integration, performance, and development blockers as they arise.
• Create tools and scripts to improve the content creation pipeline and artist workflows.
• Profile, debug and solve graphical and performance challenges, including asset optimization.
• Keep up with industry technical and artistic developments, inventing and applying tooling that will help in spatial computing.
• Be a positive, proactive communicator that seeks unique solutions to difficult problems.

Bonus :

• Experience with Python and C#.
• Experience with VR, AR or similar technologies, including UX, UI and visual design.

Additional Information:

• All your information will be kept confidential according to Equal Employment Opportunities guidelines.