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Senior Technical Artist Sledgehammer Games

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Located in the San Francisco Bay Area and Melbourne, Australia – we’re the videogame development team behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare and Call of Duty®: WWII. Since our founding in 2009, our greatest passion has been making AAA games. The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We firmly believe in supporting our talented employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker.

As we head into decade II of development, we’re focused on constantly evolving, innovating and taking risks – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. With world-class audio, design, engineering and art teams, we’ve been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry. We love what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we’re looking for talented game developers for our exciting next project.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it’s like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

Your Mission

As a Senior Technical Artist, will provide support building and delivering key technologies and workflows that enable artists and designers to quickly implement visual content into our games. The ideal candidate will have a strong eye for art quality and knowledge of real-time requirements and constraints. He or she will act as a bridge between art and engineering demonstrating superior communication skills to facilitate problem solving between departments while adding new ideas, new techniques and working with the latest technologies to create world-class games. This specific role will work closely with Activision Central Technology as well as other Activision studios involved with our development efforts.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

• Establish consistent and optimal best practices
• Consistently push content creation to maximum potential

• Create tools and processes that facilitate content authoring with an emphasis on user experience, quality and productivity
• Closely collaborations with cross studio engineers and technical artists to test and improve tools and pipelines.
• Proactively identify problems, propose solutions and seek out buy-in from the team regarding implementation strategy

Player Profile

Minimum Requirements:

• Artistic eye with advanced understanding of the creation & integration of 3D art.
• Advanced understanding of modern DCC tools.
• 7+ years of experience in game industry, shipped at least 2 AAA titles from start to finish on multiple platforms (e.g. PS4, Xbox-One.).

• Excellent communication skills, especially with regards to illustrating technical processes.
• Proficiency with Python.
• Ability to learn and operate independently.
• Flexible and comfortable with prototyping and quick iteration.

Extra Points:

• C++ experience or Computer Science degree
• Extensive portfolio with examples of professional work (e.g. art, scripts, tools, simulations, etc.)
• Blueprint or asset scripting abilities.
• Experience in CPU and GPU performance profiling.
• Proficiency with HLSL and GLSL.