Unreal Engine Technical Artist

THE THIRD FLOOR is the world's leading visualization company with offices in Los Angeles and London as well as on location with productions around the world. Since 2004, the studio has helped clients visualize and maximize content by producing computer-animated blueprints, known as "previsualizations". The Third Floor is a fun, creative company founded by artists, for artists. We work on extremely high-profile projects, while maintaining a small studio culture. The company has won multiple Emmy and VES awards for its work. Recent projects include WandaVision and Hawkeye, Wonder Woman 1984, The Mandalorian, and many more.
The Third Floor is looking for an Unreal Technical Artist for a large-scale entertainment project using the Unreal Game Engine. The ideal candidate will come with extensive Unreal experience. They will work within our Immersive team to support development utilizing game engine technology within the Film, Gaming, Theme-Park and VR industries.
Project Based. Full Time. Remote Position. Must be in the state of California, Georgia, Texas, Oregon, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York (Outside NYC), Colorado, Washington, or Canada for remote positions.
Responsibilities:

• Contribute to building amazing VR/AR experiences Unreal
• Lighting and Shading VR scenes and assets in Unreal
• Using Unreal's particle system to design and create FX
• Create and debug shader and materials graphs throughout production
• Support the development team with level implementation in Unreal
• Provide the art team with guidelines for art content creation for Unreal
• Work with the art team to make levels efficient and meet run-time performance requirements
• Help to improve technical pipelines and FX creation techniques/tools
• Document, prototype, and improve the art pipeline (desirable)

Essential Skills:

• Must have Inside out knowledge of Unreal for 3D
• Proficiency working with Maya asset workflows between Maya and Unreal
• Must have experience with Lighting and Shading in Unreal
• Experience creating functional levels in Unreal
• Understanding of the PBR workflow and working with Textures for look development
• Needs to have experience with Source Control (Perforce ideally)
• Familiarity with Substance Designer would be a plus
• Expert in Blueprints, materials, level streaming - able to rapidly prototype features using Blueprints/shaders
• Analyze content using profiling tools and work with developer to reduce scene complexity

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Coding in Python, particularly for Maya to help with tools to improve workflow
• Experience producing pipeline tools for Maya
• Experience with VR, AR and mobile development is a big plus
• Experience with performance profiling in Unreal
• Experience writing tools and UI panels for Unreal
• Proven games industry experience, with a Technical Artist credit on at least one published title
• Experience with the Substance suite and Substance Automation Tools
• Shader coding in HLSL / GLSL

Personal attributes:

• Able to think creatively and resolve technical challenges and limitations.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels, both on a technical and creative basis.
• Artistically as well as technically inclined
• Strong time management & organisation skills

The pay scale is between $20 - $70 / hour based on experience, skillset and other factors. We work an average of 5 hours of paid overtime a week. Additional TTF benefits: Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision), Sick Time, 401k (staff only), PTO (staff only), and additional Perks & Benefits.
U.S. & Canada Applicants only: TTF participates in E-Verify and we will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. All documents provided for proof of work authorization must be current and unexpired. We cannot accept expired proof of identity.
IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, TTF is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact DHS and/or the SSA before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment.