Senior Art Tools Engineer

Senior Art Tools Engineer

Fully Remote, UK 
Spliced Inc. 
AAA 

“Let’s redefine what a game is and how we interact with them. We want to make games that everyone wants to play and invite the whole world into ours.   
Together we’ll discover connection and innovation you’ve never experienced before and an amazing world you’ll never leave behind”. 
We are Spliced Inc. and we’re looking for a Senior Art Tools Engineer. 
The Role
As an Art Tools Engineer will play an important role in developing, implementing, and maintaining the Tools used by artists and animators to build with every day. While also being able to leverage your art tools, DCC, and coding expertise in order to bring new and innovative gameplay experiences to life. 

Key Responsibilities

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  Work closely with the art department and tech art/animation teams to unlock their potential by building art and animation tools and improving workflows.
• Design, develop, and support tools & features in Maya, 3DSMax, and Houdini by writing high quality and stable code.
• Proactively identify and solve workflow bottlenecks and deficiencies to improve the quality of life for the development team and ultimately increase the speed of development.
• Act as a resource to help and solve problems with the tech art and tech animation teams.
• Communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with other members of the engineering team using Slack, code reviews, design reviews, bugs, and video calls

About You

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience on multi-discipline teams
• 3+ years of professional experience in developing tools in Maya
• 3+ years experience using Python
• Experience working with Unreal engine is preferred
• Strong knowledge with art and animation pipelines
• Comfortable architecting systems and tools to fill development needs
• Advocate for building strong workflows based on peer feedback.
• Experience with Houdini API , 3DSMax API.
• Experience shipping a AAA game title.

Why Spliced Inc?
We’re drawn to passion. We’re intrigued by who you are, not just what you do. We want you to feel at home and be excited to create the most career defining work of your life.Here at Spliced Inc, we care about all of this, and more.Our benefits package is well thought out and you can expect to be rewarded and recognised for your hard work with components that include sign on bonus, stock (RSU’s), a well-being allowance, and generous pension and healthcare benefits to name but a few.

As a NetEase Games studio, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming environment for everyone and encourage applications from all races, religions, beliefs, ages, sexual orientations, and gender identities. We believe that genuinely diverse teams working in supportive and safe atmospheres, can create magic that touches the hearts and souls of all.