Technical Artist (Houdini)
Motorsport Games, Australia

Motorsport Games, a Motorsport Network company, combines innovative and engaging video games with exciting esports competitions and content for racing fans and gamers around the globe. The Company is the officially licensed video game developer and publisher for iconic motorsport racing series including NASCAR, INDYCAR, 24 Hours of Le Mans and the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). Motorsport Games is an award-winning esports partner of choice for 24 Hours of Le Mans, Formula E, BTCC, the FIA World Rallycross Championship and the eNASCAR Heat Pro League among others.

A publicly listed company on the NASDAQ, Motorsport Games is headquartered in Miami, Florida, with additional offices located in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, and Russia.

As a Technical Artist, you will join and cooperate with an experienced cross-discipline team working on AAA PC and Console titles, where your expertise, enthusiasm, and communication skills will help ensure that our art team is empowered with a suite ofprocedural tools for content creation that increase our overall efficiency of the team and quality of its work.

• Develop, improve and maintain procedural tools for asset creation
• Support the art and engineering teams in the use of these tools
• Identify areas where efficiencies could be gained through the implementation of procedural solutions
• Improve team efficiency by contributing to pipeline development, workflow and production processes
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Help to reinforce teamwork and a healthy studio culture

Requirements

• Experience using Houdini for real-time applications, preferably games
• Knowledge of game development pipelines and tools, including proficiency with Unreal Engine 4/5
• Strong understanding of rendering budgets and other performance-related technical constraints in real-time engines
• Familiarity with Python and/or at least one other scripting language
• Experience using at least one 3D application (e.g. Blender) and at least one texture creation tool (e.g. Substance)
• Great problem solving and critical thinking ability
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Programming experience
• Tools development experience
• Experience in another technical art area (e.g. character rigging, effects)
• Experience creating shaders and Unreal Engine Materials
• An interest in motorsports, sim racing or racing games

Benefits

Competitive salary, corporate benefits and the opportunity to define the future of racing from within an exciting, growing and friendly international games company

Motorsport Games is a division of Motorsport Network; it is the home for a team that believes in the power of interactive virtual motor racing and putting people in control of their own motorsports story. We are the destination for the world’s major motorsport series and brands from NASCAR to Le Mans and Formula E. We operate along the entire vertical of development, publishing and competitive esports ecosystem.

We’re more than just a developer or publisher we’re the people delivering tomorrow’s virtual racing dreams today.

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