Associate Principal Technical Artist: Performance Capture

Job Description

Rockstar Games is seeking an Associate Principal Technical Artist to join their award-winning development team in Edinburgh, Scotland. The successful candidate will develop new tools and technologies, improve pipelines, and manage complex workflows for game assets.

What the role involves:

• Interacting with stage, post, and animation teams, as well as Tech Art and IT.
• Supporting performance capture pipelines and workflows.
• Collaborating with the animation pipeline team.
• Innovating and solving technical problems throughout production.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist or similar role writing tools.
• Experience through several full game production cycles or long term projects.
• Experience using optical and markerless facial motion capture technology.
• Excellent Python programming skills (5+ years).
• Solid understanding of version control systems.
• Working knowledge of both Windows and Linux.
• Experience developing Qt based applications in Python and tools/plugins in DCCs.
• 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.
• Experience with fundamental Python packages: OpenCV, Numpy, SciPy.

The role offers:

• Opportunity to work on world-class entertainment experiences.
• A highly-motivated environment.
• Collaboration with talented people in the industry.