AR Technical Artist

Our Customer’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through their family of apps and services, they are building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. 

We are looking for an AR Technical Artist on a contract basis to help and support our clients' business needs. An AR Technical Artist is responsible for implementing and executing augmented reality experiences in our Clients' AR Platform.

What you'll do:

• Partner closely, and consult when necessary, the engineering and design teams in defining and developing first-party AR content


• Execute creative and technical direction by implementing assets and logic together in Spark AR Studio through javascript API, visual shaders, and visual scripting.


• Design, 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 of technical and artistic tasks


• Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads


• Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Must Haves:

• Experience working in a real-time product environment, such as video games/mobile games, virtual reality.


• Experience working with procedural artwork and content generation.


• Solid understanding of the computer graphics pipeline.


• Experience working with shaders, either in written form GLSL/HLSL or in visual shading such as Substance Designer


• Expertise in content authoring software and pipelines, with a focus on real-time products such as Maya, Houdini, Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine


• Expertise in-game profiling and optimization techniques


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts in a simple manner.


• Demonstrated experience in successfully working in self-motivated environments


• Educational background, or demonstrated experience in computer science fields


• Functional and reactive programming experience.


• Experience in authoring in Spark AR platform


• Experience in creating a game, or graphics focused products in Javascript or Javascript-based


• frameworks.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience required

Hours & Location: 

M-F, 40 hours/week. This role will be remote while COVID restrictions are in place. The expectation is to be onsite at our Customer’s

Burlingame, CA office once it is deemed safe to do so.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record

• Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, FSA, Commuter Benefit Program


• Accrued PTO: Up to 15 days per 12 months on assignment 


• New Child Benefit: Up to $4,000 for the birth or adoption of a child while on assignment (conditions apply)