Microsoft's' 343 Industries is looking for exceptional talent to help breathe a fresh vision into a new Halo experience. Teamwork, innovation, attention-to-detail and unbridled passion are characteristics we look for in all of our technical artists. If you are a top talent looking for an exciting, high profile project to challenge you, this is where you need to be.
We are looking for a highly-qualified candidate for the position of Senior Technical Artist. The Senior Technical Artist will play a significant role in establishing and maintaining the production pipelines. The ideal candidate will be able to work collaboratively with Art and Development teams to help bring our story alive and push the medium forward.
Job responsibilities
� Eliminate technical obstacles from the content team�s day-to-day workflows.
� Collaborate with Art and Engineering to develop content pipelines, tools & procedures.
� Proactively identify new technologies and techniques that will improve the quality of the tools and/or experience.
� Anticipate dependencies, inefficiencies and risks within the project and propose mitigation or contingency plans as appropriate.
� Find solutions to production challenges as they arise.
� Design, develop, support and test proprietary tools for art content creation.
� Create new HLSL/GLSL shader functionality.
� Collaborate with Art and Test teams to raise run-time art content quality and efficiency in engine.
� Establish guidelines and write process documents for art content creation.
� Create and maintain documentation for the tools used in art content creation.
� Support and train Artists using internally developed tools and piplelines.
Qualifications/Skills
� 5+ years of experience on commercial film/game projects or related fields in real-time graphics.
� In depth knowledge of major art packages
� Strong understanding of Maya and MEL
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