The Senior Technical Artist is responsible for supporting a content creation pipeline balancing ease of use, visual quality, and optimal performance.  While your primary client group will be Artists, you are expected to collaborate closely with Engineers and ensure a successful working relationship across both groups.  

Responsibilities

• Design and implement simple, fast, elegant data driven content creation pipelines.
• Support both art and engineering.
• Implement/maintain game wide pipelines collaborating with engineering and content teams on implementation.
• Supports artists by trouble shooting artwork, fixing content issues or providing training and documentation.
• Works with pipeline and rendering programmers to implement systems.
• Optimize content to hit performance targets or memory targets
• Create high quality shaders and materials for a wide variety of surface types
• Create tools and scripts to assist the artists in their workflow.

Qualifications

• Must have 5 to 8 years of experience in video games.  At least 3+ years as a Technical Artist.
• Shipped at least 1 AAA game.
• Proven track record of continuously improving content pipelines.
• Understanding of data driven art content pipelines.
• Understanding of Physically Based lighting and shading.
• Scripting experience.  Python preferred.
• Has done material authoring for content creators.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 4 or equivalent is a huge plus.
• Experience using Maya a plus.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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