Summary: Meta’s Reality Labs is looking for a Technical Artist to join our avatars team. The avatars team creates and maintains the system that powers our avatars used across our family of apps, including all of our Metaverse initiatives in VR/AR. As a Technical Artist working on tools and pipelines, you will have the opportunity to work closely with designers, engineers, and other technical artists to help bring characters to life. Characters who are part of our apps that are used by billions of users around the world.Required Skills: Technical Artist, Avatars Team Responsibilities:
Create and maintain a wide array of existing workflows and tools
Partner closely with art, engineering, user-experience, product management, and other teams to develop content in modern real-time environments
Design, manage and maintain the content pipeline from asset creation through deployment
Quickly innovate and solve issues with cross-functional teams
Ability to collaborate and iterate based on the team's evolving needs
Minimum Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications:
Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams
Experience with Python
Experience with real time asset implementation and optimization techniques
Experience in character technologies
Familiarity with DCC tools such as Maya, Blender or Houdini
Experience communicating across team members including engineers, artists and production staff
Experience in game development, film or the tech industry operating as a Technical Artist
Experience building tools, plug-ins and designing workflows for content production
Preferred Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge of emerging technologies
Experience developing plugins for industry-standard 3D software
VR/AR experience
Experience with open source projects such as USD
Comprehensive understanding of how to build content for real time performance
Maya experience including the C API
Extensive content development experience, including shipped AAA games
Experience with shader development
Public Compensation: $95,000/year to $152,000/year + bonus + equity + benefitsIndustry: InternetEqual Opportunity: Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.
