Our social media giant client seeks a Technical Artist to join their team in this 12 month freelance role!

This role will be 100% remote, but you must be based in the following approved location(s):

Burlingame, CA or San Francisco Bay Area

The Technical Artist will be responsible for the following:

• Create assets, processes, tooling to validate, prototype, and implement new capabilities in partnership with cross functional teams.
• Implement runtime logic within a complex real-time environment with performance limitations in mind.
• Prototype, profile and optimize custom shaders
• 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, including diagnosing and fixing bugs.
• Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads.
• Design, manage and maintain the pipeline from artists and designers through to deployment.

The ideal Technical Artist should possess the following:

• Demonstrated expertise at understanding inner workings of a real-time game engine (Unity, Unreal, etc)
• Experience with game/real-time profiling and optimization techniques.
• Experience with real-time scripting.
• Experience in shader languages (GLSL, ShaderLab, HLSL).
• Experience shipping products with stringent runtime performance constraints, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games.
• Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience communicating across team members including engineers and artists.
• Experience in real-time content authoring (characters/environments/VFX/animation/lighting).
• Experience working with version control systems (Git, Perforce, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of low level real-time graphics pipeline concepts.
• Being passionate and informed about emerging technologies.
• Self-motivated, product thinking mindset

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Employee Stock Purchase Plan and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: Jessica.Palmer@jobalert.creativecircle.com

Creative Circle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements.

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