Senior Technical Artist
Senior Technical Artist
Posted on :
07-04-2025
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Monthly Salary
$ 164000 - 233000
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
07-04-2025
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Technical Artist to drive the development of photorealistic 3D environments that challenge and improve our purposebuilt robotaxi. This role focuses on fully procedural world creation using Houdini helping expand our autonomous vehicles ability to navigate new geofences and scenarios.
The ideal candidate has deep experience in AAA games VFX or simulation with a strong foundation in procedural content generation and technical artistry. They will enhance our Houdinibased world generators leveraging realworld data and artistcreated content to create dynamic highfidelity simulation environments.
In this role you will:
- Develop largescale procedural environments in Houdini to simulate realworld driving conditions.
- Expand the capabilities of our custom Houdini world generators supporting new locations and simulation features.
- Work with realworld data (e.g. LIDAR photogrammetry) to build accurate urban landscapes.
- Create procedural assets that dynamically adjust based on geospatial data and simulation needs.
- Optimize environments for realtime performance in highfidelity simulation environments.
- Procedurally build synthetic datasets leveraging Houdin with 3D content.
Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in AAA gaming VFX or simulation.
- Expertlevel Houdini and VEX knowledge 5 years).
- Strong Python scripting skills for automation and tool development.
- Proven experience in procedural content generation (terrain cityscapes road networks or similar).
- Solid understanding of 3D math related to procedural environment creation.
- Strong problemsolving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical challenges.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills working crossfunctionally with teams in simulation AI and engineering.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with virtual city generation and largescale procedural environments.
- Knowledge of C.
- Familiarity with Maya/MEL scripting.
- Realtime experience in game engines (Unreal Unity or custom rendering solutions).
- Experience leading crossfunctional projects across art engineering and simulation teams.
Compensation
There are three major components to compensation for this position: salary Amazon Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) and Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights. The salary will range from$164000 $233000. A signon bonus may be part of a compensation package. Compensation will vary based on geographic location jobrelated knowledge skills and experience.
Zoox also offers a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (e.g. sick leave vacation bereavement) unpaid time off Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights Amazon RSUs health insurance longterm care insurance longterm and shortterm disability insurance and life insurance.
About Zoox
Zoox is developing the first groundup fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem required to bring this technology to market. Sitting at the intersection of robotics machine learning and design Zoox aims to provide the next generation of mobilityasaservice in urban environments. Were looking for top talent that shares our passion and wants to be part of a fastmoving and highly executionoriented team.
Accommodations
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A Final Note:
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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