Houdini Technical Artist (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Houdini Technical Artist (Gamedev): Defining, creating, supporting, and maintaining the procedural content generation pipeline and tools. Focus on understanding the existing processes, updating/optimizing them, and understanding the needs of level designers and level artists to provide custom-tailored tools.

Location: Based in Annecy, France. Hybrid work format.

Company

hirify.global Annecy has developed many sagas, especially on Splinter Cell, Assassin’s Creed®, while focusing on multiplayer online and social aspects, and also on concrete game mandates such as Tom Clancy’s: The Division 2® and Ghost Recon Wildlands.

What you will do

• Create Houdini digital assets for use in game with Houdini Engine (procedural objects, terrain processing & space population (rocks and vegetation)).
• Iterate with various teams to create tools linking the game engine to Houdini processes, empower world builders by freeing them from redundant tasks, and allow artists to express their creativity.
• Maintain processes, pipelines, and documentation to ensure compliance with existing systems.
• Gather gameplay (playability/variety), technical constraints (memory/perf), and artistic requirements into a single rule.
• Troubleshoot problems and find appropriate solutions.
• Assist the team in learning new technologies and processes.

Requirements

• Well advanced Houdini knowledge.
• Familiar with VEX and ideally with Python.
• Strong understanding of rendering budgets and other technical constraints related to performance in real-time engines.
• Strong understanding of the requirements for a global pipeline, the ability to enforce strong processes and to setup new ones.
• Experience collaborating with graphic programmers and mentoring artists.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Good knowledge and understanding of the video game development processes and techniques.
• Overall artistic knowledge (composition, color, motion, etc.) is a plus.

Nice to have

• Experience in developing games for consoles (PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3).
• Familiarity with 3DSMax/Zbrush/Motion Builder /Photoshop.
• Knowledge of other programming languages (C#, C++, Java Script).
• USD knowledge is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global’s 19,000 team members, working across more than 30 countries around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer that believes diverse backgrounds and perspectives are key to creating worlds where both players and teams can thrive and express themselves.
• hirify.global is committed to creating an inclusive work environment that reflects the diversity of our player community.

Hiring process

• Phonescreen with the Talent Acquisition Team.
• Interview with the Technical Animation Director.