Associate Technical Artist

Description

Sledgehammer Games is currently seeking a generalist Associate Technical Artist. This person will join our Tech Art team in helping diagnose and fix problems with content, pipeline tools, and frame rate. The ideal candidate is someone who is organized, creative, motivated, and flexible.

Responsibilities include becoming familiar with how the different pieces of our current pipelines work together and how to best solve problems within that framework, as well as supporting existing pipeline tools. In addition, candidates will be responsible for diagnosing and addressing frame rate issues by working with the team or implementing solutions directly. This position calls for someone who is a good problem solver with a keen attention to detail.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Become skilled with and support our tools and processes for content development - through documentation, teaching, and end user support.
Troubleshoot issues as they arise and offer solutions to help our content teams be more effective.
Learn to write tools for artists and support them throughout production in products such as Maya.

Qualifications:

At least 1 year of professional video games experience, or applicable experience working in the field of computer graphics.
The ability to communicate well with other artists and programmers to troubleshoot issues and technical problems.
Experience with scripting/programming such as Python or C#.
Intimate knowledge of Maya
Portfolio of work showing problem solving techniques and familiarity with content authoring.
A clear understanding of the art production process for different types of assets.

The ideal candidate will:

Work well with artists, gathering requirements on their processes and helping them work through issues they may encounter.
Be a strong problem solver, with a mind for creative solutions.
Have a passion for helping our content developers create high quality visuals.
Be comfortable working with and manipulating texture, mesh, and lighting data inside 3D packages and in intermediate file formats.
Be a proactive self-starter, looking out for problems and proposing solutions before they become problems for the rest of the team.

About Us:

Sledgehammer Games was founded with a singular goal: Achieve Excellence. We have a state of the art facility, an industry leading development team, and a studio culture built to promote and support world class game developers. We are actively recruiting top talent for our Call of Duty development team. If you are passionate and driven to do your best work, and have a desire to work on the most successful FPS franchise in the history of video games, please apply online.

Come take a closer look at our studio, our culture, and some of the worldwide press for our latest game, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, at http://www.sledgehammergames.com/.

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