Senior VFX Artist - Ouro Interactive

Ouro Interactive is Meta’s first in-house Oculus Game Studio dedicated exclusively to creating lighthouse VR, PC and mobile games for the Horizon Platform. We’re looking for people who obsess about doing the right thing for the player. We’re a passionate, caring group that loves learning and growing as developers. We’re an intentionally small but mighty studio, where everyone wears each others’ hats and covers each others’ backs. Together, we’re looking to create some of the world’s most delightful experiences – games that you will remember for years because of the friends, memories, and stories you made along the way.

Senior VFX Artist - Ouro Interactive

Responsibilities

• A Senior VFX Artist is responsible for the technical aspects of art asset development and the creation of high quality visual effects pipelines and assets. This entails working closely with Art and Engineering to develop and support the asset pipeline, shaders, templates, rigs, real-time effects, and animations.

• Partner closely and lead the art and design teams in defining and developing visual effects content

• Design, manage and maintain the pipeline for visual effects from pre-production through production

• Optimize content through enhancing performance and instructing the artists and designers on asset creation, modeling and texturing best practices

• Manage the visual effects pipeline including developing runtime efficient visual effects, reusable templates, shaders, and techniques that other artists can build from

• Develop broad technical expertise to assist in a wide variety technical and artistic tasks

• Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads

• Be an owner of the visual effects domain, providing top class, performant, mixed-reality artwork

• Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environment

Minimum Qualifications

• Expert of the real-time visual effects domain

• Expert in bespoke performant solutions to challenging problem

• Expert communication skills, communication across teams including engineers and artists

• Experienced working independently and manage one’s time

• Experienced in game profiling and optimization techniques

• Experienced shipping products with stringent runtime performance constraints, such as complex mobile or 3D applications or games

• Experienced leadership and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience required

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced in working with Python, C#, Typescript, HLSL, CG

• Experienced in creating tools and automation for one or more packages like Maya, Houdini, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, Knald, Marmoset, Photoshop, etc

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.

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$149,000/year to $205,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base salary, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.