Your New Role and Team
Our Simulation team is looking to hire a Technical Artist. Reporting to the Simulation Team Lead, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of our platform’s design, architecture, and machine learning models, used to power our general-purpose robots.
The ideal candidate for this position enjoys active participation in the development process and possesses the technical know-how to bring a creative vision to reality. You will get a chance to work with engineers and research scientists throughout the development cycle, from gathering requirements, recording and modeling new environments, to ensuring all assets work within the scope of the technical pipeline. If you are passionate about keeping up with the latest tools and methodologies for producing materials, shaders, rendering, and establishing workflows, you will get a chance to work closely with the team lead to shape the strategy and direction of our world asset pipeline.
Our Success Criteria
- Bring hands-on experience to ensure the utmost technical quality of assets through production
- Gain cutting edge platform experience as you create tools and scripts to assist research scientists and engineers with content, lighting, and shading matters
- Expand your career experience as you design and implement elegant data-driven content creation pipelines
- Achieve company-wide visibility as you partner closely with engineers to inject/troubleshoot various assets utilized by our world engine
Your Experience
Qualifications
- Between 3-5+ years of experience in the visual effects industry as a technical artist, technical lead, or generalist
- Strong technical expertise in modeling, texturing & rigging
- Working experience in animation, lighting, rendering, and compositing
- Bachelor’s degree in art, design, mathematics, engineering, computer science or equivalent
Skills
- Experience with Unreal 4/5, Unity, or similar 3d game engines
- Experience creating and optimizing materials and shaders
- Knowledge of art creation pipelines, asset exporting, and process automation software
- Experience using Blender or similar tools
- Knowledge of Python, Java, or C++ and familiarity with SDLC
- Experience with production management software such as JIRA
Traits
- Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to complex problems
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently
- Obsession with bringing human-like intelligence to machines
Working at Sanctuary
Sanctuary is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
Benefits
Full time employees enjoy medical/dental/vision, life insurance, wellness programs, stock options, paid time off (vacation, paid holidays, sick time, and parental leave), scheduling and worksite flexibility by role, and more.
About Sanctuary
Founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose, Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal, Sanctuary is a Vancouver, Canada-based company. Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.
Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind). The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.
Recruiting & Employment Agency Notice:
Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter (“Agency”) that provides an unsolicited resume(s) or otherwise presents a prospective job candidate through the Sanctuary career site or directly to any Sanctuary employee, irrevocably grants to Sanctuary the unrestricted right to engage, hire, or contract with that candidate at Sanctuary’s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. We appreciate your interest in working together, and should the need arise our Talent Acquisition team will contact any external firms directly.
