Houdini Technical Artist

Azra Games is recapturing the childhood thrill of storytelling with your entire toy box for modern AAA gaming. We are dedicated to one genre, role-playing games, and led by veteran designer Mark Otero (Zero-to-one director of Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, EA's most successful mobile game of all time, with $1.5B lifetime revenue). Azra has assembled an expert team with decades of experience building blockbuster games. Our debut release, Legions & Legends, will be Mark's ninth RPG. And his best. Azra Games believes in harnessing the power of technology, with a focus on generative AI, to radically disrupt & transform game development.
Job Summary:
Azra Games is looking for an experienced Houdini Technical artist who will help in developing and maintaining our procedural content generation tools to help the art teams in populating the environments. You would be a part of the pipeline in simulation and destruction of assets and different in-game scenarios. In this role you will be working in a tight team under the supervision of the Art Director and you will collaborate in cross-functional teams on a daily basis.
This can be either a permanent or contract position starting as soon as possible.
Responsibilities:

• Together with artists identify workflows for the procedural creation of both small and large-scale environments and assets.
• Analyze current pipelines and identify how to improve them with procedural tools.
• Work together with programmers and artists to create and maintain efficient procedural tools for the environment team.
• Be in close contact with the broader art teams to gather and analyze feedback and improve on the tools accordingly.
• Spread their knowledge of Houdini and its uses to the rest of the teams
• Create and maintain documentation.
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues as needed.

Qualifications:

• Working experience on a AAA game
• 3+ of experience in Side Effects Houdini in procedural generation of graphical content and destruction simulation.
• Strong understanding of game development pipelines and processes and applying the principles of procedural generation.
• Experience in prototyping, and present ideas before driving implementation.
• Experience working with Houdini engine
• Excellent problem solving skills and strong organizational skills.
• Great communication skills and a positive attitude.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical parties.
• Have excellent knowledge in one or more DCC applications. (Modo, Blender, Maya, Max).
• Training and tutoring skills.

The perks of working at Azra:

• Competitive salary & equity
• Platinum healthcare plan for you and your family paid for by Azra Games. Including health, vision, and dental!
• Parental leave
• Unlimited paid time off
• Work that fits your lifestyle - Work from our studio office in Sacramento, CA, and/or hybrid, and anything in between.
• Occasional catered lunches and dinners
• Office social events including happy hours, parties, and community service projects.
• A generous technology budget to provide the best gear you need to be your most productive and happy self.
• A packed snack room and loaded fridge
• Dedicated Game Room for "Market Research"
• An authentic office environment where you get to be YOU

Base Salary: $90,858 - $137,195. The final salary offered for this position may take into account a number of factors including, but not limited to, location, skills, education, and experience.