Technical Artist

As a Technical Artist on the Virtual Systems Team you will build Digital Twins of Amazon facilities and the robotic solutions used to automate them now and into the future! You will work closely with simulation engineers and solution designers to model the future. Your work will be leveraged to synthetically generate data sets for training algorithms and verifying solutions well before any concrete is poured or steel is laid.

Key job responsibilities

· Liaising between heads of programming and design teams

· Researching and developing technical tools for a project

· Setting up workflows of art production

· Supporting artists and engineers in the 3D art pipeline

· Assisting in asset performance and validation

· Solving complex technical issues during development

· Deciding on what software and tools are required for Digital Twin production

· Developing and maintaining resources and pipelines along with programmers

· Maintaining technical documentation

About the team

The Virtual Systems Team creates simulation models that enable design, visualization, and optimization of robotic solutions. Our customers use our simulation to de-risk complex programs, decrease R&D time, and optimize virtual models of new robotics, thereby improving operations network throughput and saving millions of dollars.

· Experience with Houdini or Maya

· Experience with VEX or MEL

· Experience with Python

· Experience with at least one Game Engine Unity, Unreal Engine or Lumberyard

· NVIDIA Omniverse Kit and other Omniverse Apps

· C++, C#, Java

· Substance Designer

· 3D Studio Max

· Familiarity with Revit, AutoCAD and Solidworks

· Experience with USD based pipelines/workflows

· Experience with 3D Scanning or Photogrammetry

· Good Understanding of PBR and MDL (Material Definition Language)

Apply: https://amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1820639/technical-artist-virtual-systems

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