Senior Technical Artist: Performance Capture

Job Description

Rockstar Games is seeking a passionate Senior Technical Artist to join their award-winning development team in London. This role involves developing new tools and technologies, improving pipelines, and managing complex workflows for the game's assets. The Senior Technical Artist will collaborate with stage, post, and animation teams, as well as Tech Art and IT departments, to support performance capture pipelines and workflows. They will innovate and solve technical problems throughout all phases of production.Role responsibilities include:

• Designing, developing, and supporting Python tools and processes.
• Leveraging automated solutions to efficiently process large amounts of data.
• Writing automated tests for new and existing code.
• Writing clear documentation for tools and workflows.
• Participating in discussions and brainstorming sessions.
• Providing feedback and mentoring junior team members.
• Troubleshooting virtual production and animation issues.
• Working independently and forging connections across teams.

Requirements for this role include:

• 5+ 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 and inspire teammates.
• Excellent programming skills in Python (5+ years).
• Solid understanding of version control systems.
• 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.

Rockstar Games offers:

• The opportunity to work on world-class entertainment experiences.
• The chance to collaborate with talented people in the industry.
• A full-time, permanent, and in-office position.