Senior 3D Artist, Technical

About the role

A career at Roblox means you'll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineers to prototype and guide the development of our movement and rigging systems
• Be a subject matter expert on animation and animation technology who cultivates a comprehensive, user-centered animation system
• Evaluate our internal workflows to develop a POV on areas of critical investment; bring knowledge of industry best practices to the team
• Cover any outsourced animation assets and be responsible for quality control
• Partner with our community engagement and documentation teams to build tutorials and sample content
• Engage with external creators to advise on best practices and surface opportunities to further improve workflows

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree or proven experience in a related CG field or computer science
• 5+ years experience in the game industry, worked on titles on multiple platforms (mobile a plus)
• Familiarity with scripting languages and node-based character controllers (i.e. Unreal Blueprints) is ideal

Qualifications

• Ability: Envision extensible and efficient methods for production of high quality avatars; including clothing, hair, and skin shading
• Knowledge: Strong understanding of modern real-time engines, a variety of tools (including Maya and Blender), runtime animation systems, sophisticated deformation systems and cloth simulation
• Skills: Demonstrates an expertise in human motion, squash and stretch, timing, and secondary motion
• Technical Toolbelt: Builds rigs and morph targets, does skin weighting, and uses solvers for hair and cloth

Skills

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Pay

The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Schedule

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).