Technical Artist - Burlingame, LA, NYC, or Houston remote

Tailored Management is seeking a Technical Artist to join our client's team. This is an excellent opportunity to join the world's largest social media company who enables over a billion users to openly connect with friends and family, share content, and explore the world.
 
Technical Artist
Meta
Location: open to remote candidates near Meta's Burlingame, Denver, NYC, Houston, and Los Angeles offices
Pay:

• Burlingame market – $50.95/hour
• Los Angeles market – $57.75/hour
• NYC market – $61.00/hour
• Houston market - $56.10/hour
• Denver market - $56.00/hour

Contract Length: 12-month contract (opportunity for extension/conversion)
Contract Type: W2
Benefits & PTO
This position requires authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship, now and in the future

ABOUT THIS ROLE
A Technical Artist is responsible for the technical aspects of art asset development. This entails working closely with Art and Engineering to develop and support the asset pipeline, animation and rigging tools, animation rigs, and real-time effects.
 
RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partner closely with the engineering and art teams to support content development
• Manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment
• Optimize content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modeling and texturing best practices
• Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety technical and artistic tasks
• Troubleshoot content issues and improve QA processes
• Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads
• Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environment

 
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Python/PyMEL, PySide/PyQt
• Ability to work on game development
• Creativity, verbal and written communication skills and problem solving ability are required.
• Verbal and written communication skills; communication across teams including engineers and artists
• Ability to work independently and manage one's time.
• Creating tools and automation for Maya or native Windows
• Experience with game profiling and optimization techniques
• Experience shipping products with stringent runtime performance constraints, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games
• Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience required