A Technical Artist is the key bridge between artists and engineers, and Horizon Worlds is currently looking for a passionate team member to work closely with a small team to build cutting edge functional tooling for our content creators on our Horizon Worlds platform.

Responsibilities:
Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to develop content across a range of devices.
Implement runtime logic within a complex real-time environment with performance limitations in mind.
Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety of technical and artistic tasks, including diagnosing and fixing bugs.
Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads.
Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and end u through to deployment.
Prototype, profile and optimize custom shaders

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Required Skills & Experience

5+ years of experience developing real-time games
5+ years of experience with procedural generation in Houdini
Experience with prototyping and gameplay programming in Unity or Unreal
Expertise with DCC packages, and DCC-to-game engine pipelines
Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams.
Experience communicating across team members including engineers and designers.
Experience in real-time content creation (characters/environments/VFX/animation/lighting).
Experience working with version control systems (Git, Perforce, etc.)

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Experience with Generative AI models and concepts
Experience developing real-time experiences for VR headsets
Deep knowledge of game engines, preferably Unity
Being passionate and informed about emerging technologies, and video games.
Self-motivated, product thinking mindset

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.