Meta’s Reality Labs is looking for a Technical Artist to join our avatars team. The avatars team creates and maintains the system that power our avatars used across our family of apps, including all of our Metaverse initiatives in VR/AR. As a Technical Artist working on tools and pipelines, you will have the opportunity to work closely with designers, engineers, and other technical artists to help bring characters to life. Characters who are part of our apps that are used by billions of users around the world.Technical Artist, Avatars Responsibilities
- Create and maintain a wide array of existing workflows and tools
- Partner closely with art, engineering, user-experience, product management, and other teams to develop content in modern real-time environments
- Design, manage and maintain the content pipeline from asset creation through deployment
- Quickly innovate and solve issues with cross-functional teams
- Ability to collaborate and iterate based on the team’s evolving needs
Minimum Qualifications
- Experience collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience with Python and PySide/PyQt
- Familiarity with DCC tools such as Maya, Blender or Houdini
- Experience with real time asset implementation and optimization techniques
- Experience in character technologies/rigging
- Experience communicating across team members including engineers, artists and production staff
- Experience in game development, film or the tech industry operating as a Technical Artist
- Experience building tools, plug-ins and designing workflows for content production
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of emerging technologies
- Experience developing plugins for industry-standard 3D software
- VR/AR experience
- Experience with open source projects such as USD
- Comprehensive understanding of how to build content for real time performance
- Maya experience including the C++ API
- Extensive content development experience, including shipped AAA games
About Meta
Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
Meta is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.
$127,000/year to $178,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits
Please note the national salary range listed in the job posting reflects the new hire salary range across levels and U.S. locations that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be commensurate with the candidate’s final level and final location.