Senior Technical Artist
Posted on 1/22/2023
INACTIVE
Netflix

10,001+ employees

Subscription streaming entertainment service
Company Overview
Netflix's mission is to entertain the world. The company operates a streaming platform for movies & TV shows and has over 222 million subscribers globally.
Consumer Software
Education

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$120B

Founded

1997

Headquarters

Los Gatos, California

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

2%
Locations
Remote in USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Requirements
  • 5+ years experience as a technical artist shipping multiple AAA, casual or mobile games
  • Rapid prototyping experience, creating stub assets for use in-game while testing new ideas
  • Strong art skills with experience and an understanding of topics such as 2D and 3D graphics, VFX, modeling, compositing, shaders, optimization, texturing, and lighting for games
  • Exceptional communication, cross discipline collaboration skills
  • Familiarity with multiple game engine technologies such as Unity3D and UnrealEngine
  • Expertise in content creation and tool development in DCC tools, such as Maya, Photoshop, etc
  • Passion for making video games, especially in a rapid, focused, smaller form vs multi-year investments
  • Coding/scripting expertise, such as C#, Lua, Python, C++, etc
Responsibilities
  • Visual development and prototyping: In the early days, collaborate with the core team to rapidly prototype visuals to achieve product vision. This includes building stub assets, consulting on constraints and getting stuff into the game as quickly as possible to help define both form and function
  • Prototyping pipeline: As the game design matures, experimenting and investing in pipelines and tools that enable the team to iterate and experiment with styles and functionality during the early stages, with an eye towards making production pipelines
  • Production Pipeline: Once we hit production, collaborate with the rest of the team to make sure that our pipeline is robust, and services the needs of a full production team to be able to iterate quickly. This includes turning wireframes into art assets and implementing them in a performant way that sticks to the artistic vision
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience working successfully with art outsourcing
  • Excellent UI design chops, optimizing for clean, legible, and intuitive widgets & layouts
  • Experience building games for early or unfinished platforms