R&D Tech Artist, Game Studio: Transmedia Lab

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Role

As the lines between games, film, TV, and animation continue to blur, the Transmedia Lab R&D team works within the Netflix Game Studio and across the company to ensure we’re paving a way towards a future where creatives and teams can seamlessly collaborate across those mediums in a way only Netflix can.

As a Senior R&D Technical Artist, you will prototype workflows and develop tools to leverage the latest advancements in linear and interactive content creation.

You are curious, willing, and capable of experimenting with a diverse range of technologies, from DCC tools to scripting languages and GenAI frameworks. You will also collaborate with a wide range of disciplines and projects and develop novel solutions to their production needs.

Responsibilities

• Technical: Prototype and develop small, practical solutions to complex creative problems, validation, optimization and automation needs.

• Artistic: Create necessary assets such as models, textures, and materials to act as proof-of-concept or reference to other teams.

• Research: Explore and adapt tools from other disciplines or industries to find opportunities to enhance or complement existing workflows.

• Collaboration: Assist other teams. Serve as connective tissue between a wide range of projects and productions.

Requirements

• Professional experience as a Senior or Lead Technical Artist, Pipeline Technical Director or similar role in games, with an emphasis on characters, shading, cinematics and asset management.

• Diverse experience in adjacent industries such as film visual effects, animation or virtual production.

• Expertise with at least one full-featured game engine and how assets move through them (Unreal, Unity, internal AAA game studio engines, etc.)

• Advanced knowledge in one or more DCC (Digital Content Creation) tools like Maya, Blender, Houdini, etc.

• Demonstrable scripting and tool prototyping experience in Python, C#, Unreal Blueprints, and/or similar programming languages.

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills.

• Have a strong sense of ownership, independence, and bias towards action.

• Excited about building proof of concepts and prototypes over shipping full games.

Bonus Skills

• Experience with 3D data exchange formats such as OpenUSD, glTF, MDL, Alembic, etc.

• Working successfully with art outsourcing.

• Hands-on experience with GenAI tools and frameworks.

• Managing workflows across disparate production environments and toolchains (Mac, Linux, Windows, source control, DCC applications, etc.)

Locations:

• Remote, USA and Canada

• Must have the ability to travel 3-4 times a year to USA

Compensation:

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $500,000 USD.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits here.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.