Python Job: Technical Artist, Avatars

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Company

Meta
Ireland

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

Python Job Details

You will have a unique opportunity to help us to deliver the best possible experience of interacting with other people using an avatar. You will be inventing and developing state of the art solutions for avatar's locomotion, interactions, facial expressions and secondary motion. You will work closely with other technical artists and collaborate with world class engineers, data scientists, designers and user experience researchers to define the future of social experiences in Metaverse.

Technical Artist, Avatars Responsibilities:

  • Create tools to streamline the creation of digital avatars
  • Help create well-architected and scalable rigging systems
  • Contribute to and help maintain a wide array of existing workflows and tools
  • Partner closely with art and engineering teams to define and develop content in modern real-time environments
  • Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment
  • Quickly solve issues with your cross-functional leads
  • Ability to collaborate and iterate based on the team's needs

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Experience in game development or film as a Technical Artist
  • Experience creating advanced procedural rigging systems
  • Expert Knowledge of character rigging in Maya
  • Experience with Maya Python/PyMEL, C++ API, PySide/PyQt
  • Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams
  • Experience communicating across team members including engineers and artists
  • Experience in facial rigging and morph targets
  • Experience with real time asset implementation and optimization techniques
  • Experience working with Unity or Unreal