Senior Technical Artist | Amazon Game Studios
Senior Technical Artist - Seattle, WA
Amazon Game Studios is looking for a Senior Technical Artist. The ideal candidate will be comfortable troubleshooting, inventing, and documenting workflows for artists creating assets for game development. You will need to be proficient at scripting and automating applications such as Maya or 3DS Max. You will need to be comfortable troubleshooting and inventing within the game engine. You will work with art, design, and technical discipline leads to solve specific challenges, provide direction to peers, and need to be comfortable with artistic critique. Our games span from real-time next-gen graphics to pre-rendered assets. The ideal candidate will feel comfortable doing both.
Qualifications
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer. We are located in Lake Forest, CA. Learn more about Amazon Game Studio please go to http://games.amazon.com/
Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History.
Amazon Game Studios is looking for a Senior Technical Artist. The ideal candidate will be comfortable troubleshooting, inventing, and documenting workflows for artists creating assets for game development. You will need to be proficient at scripting and automating applications such as Maya or 3DS Max. You will need to be comfortable troubleshooting and inventing within the game engine. You will work with art, design, and technical discipline leads to solve specific challenges, provide direction to peers, and need to be comfortable with artistic critique. Our games span from real-time next-gen graphics to pre-rendered assets. The ideal candidate will feel comfortable doing both.
Qualifications
- Portfolio demonstrates tech art experience in several of the following: characters, rendering, visual effects, or environments
- Experience troubleshooting workflow issues and scripting Version Control systems such as Git, SVN, or Perforce
- 4+ years of experience using Maya or 3DS Max
- Worked on at least 1 published game title for console or mobile
- Experience leading and mentoring a team of technical artists and providing direction
- Experience collaborating with design, art, and technical teams
- Experience working with game engines such as Unity3D or Unreal
- Experience scripting with Maya and 3DS Max
- Experience writing shaders
- Able to troubleshoot and fix complex workflow issues in artist software, version control systems, and game engines.
- Examples of inventing new techniques or processes
- Knowledge of C#, JavaScript, and C++
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer. We are located in Lake Forest, CA. Learn more about Amazon Game Studio please go to http://games.amazon.com/
Work Hard. Have Fun. Make History.