Simulation Technical Artist

Autonomous vehicles are redefining the way we live, work, and play-creating safer and more efficient roads. These revolutionary benefits require massive computational horsepower and large-scale production software expertise. Tapping into decades-long experience in high-performance computing, imaging, and AI, NVIDIA has built a software-defined, end-to-end platform for the transportation industry that enables continuous improvement and continuous deployment through over the air updates. It delivers everything needed to develop autonomous vehicles at scale.

Simulation gives us the capability to test an autonomous vehicle in a near-infinite variety of conditions and scenarios before it even reaches the road, accelerating development time and improving the reliability of the self-driving stack at the same time. We're looking for a talented Senior Simulation Technical Artist to join the DRIVE Sim team and help make it all a reality. This meaningful role will see you working with technical visionaries within the company to define and deliver a simulation environment that advances the state of the art in autonomous vehicles.

What you will be doing:

• Help in designing and implementing the art content pipeline for simulation application.

• Identify content workflow problems, and work with the development team to solve them.

• Maintain and improve technologies and content workflows.

• Integrate new technologies (internal and external) into content workflows.

• Interact with artists and programmers on a daily basis to identify challenges and provide solutions.

What we need to see:

• Bachelor Degree or above, at least 3+ years of games/animation/FX production experience.

• Solid knowledge of CG fundamentals: modeling, texturing/shading/surfacing, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing.

• Understanding of various gaming platform limitations with regard to visual assets.

• Advanced understanding of at least one 3D package.

• Fluent English ability

Ways to stand out from the crowd:

• Python, C# programming experience Knowledge of Universal Scene Description (USD)

• Experience with domain randomization for perception training

• Experience with procedural content generation or Houdini

NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world's most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us. If you're creative and autonomous, we want to hear from you!