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Rockstar Games is seeking a passionate Associate Principal Technical Artist to join their award-winning development team in London. This role offers the opportunity to develop new tools and technologies, improve pipelines, and manage complex workflows for the vast amount of files and assets that make up their games. The ideal candidate will work closely with various stage, post, and animation teams, as well as Tech Art and IT, to support performance capture pipelines and workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and support Python tools and processes to enhance stakeholders’ pipelines.
- Leverage automated solutions to efficiently process large amounts of data.
- Write various types of automated tests for new and existing code.
- Write clear documentation for tools and workflows created.
- Participate in discussions and brainstorming sessions with developers and stakeholders.
- Provide thorough, thoughtful, and useful feedback.
- Engage in team-based problem solving to diagnose unexpected issues.
- Assist with technical direction and support for a team of developers.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist or similar role writing tools.
- Experience working through several full game production cycles or equivalent experience.
- Experience using optical motion capture technology.
- Experience using markerless facial motion capture technology.
- Ability to effectively communicate, provide feedback, and inspire teammates.
- Comfortable bringing forward and actioning new ideas to improve technology and processes.
- Excellent programming skills in Python (5+ years) with a strong ability to produce clean, readable code.
- Solid understanding of version control systems and related best practices.
- Working knowledge of both Windows and Linux.
- Experience writing Qt based applications in Python via PySide or PyQt.
- Experience writing tools and plugins in at least one DCC (Maya, MotionBuilder, etc).
- Experience writing tools for virtual production stages, layout teams and/or animation teams.
- Experience writing database and event driven toolchains.
- Experience supporting large, legacy codebases.
- Experience with common database query languages, APIs, and structuring data.
- Experience with leveraging CI/CD systems to automate testing and deployment of tools.
- Experience with fundamental Python packages: OpenCV, Numpy, SciPy.
Rockstar Games offers:
- Opportunity to work on world-class entertainment experiences.
- Be part of a team working on some of the most rewarding, large-scale creative projects.
- Work within an inclusive, highly-motivated environment.
- Learn and collaborate with some of the most talented people in the industry.
