Senior Technical Artist

Mission of the Role: Senior Technical Artist is a
specialized professional who combines artistic and technical skills to solve
complex problems in the fields of 2D 3D GUI, animations, and visual
effects. They bridge the gap between creative designers and developers, ensuring
that the creative vision is implemented effectively in a technical environment.
This position will focus on leveraging the knowledge of software, programming
languages and technical tools to troubleshoot and optimize the assets, working
closely with designers and developers to convert the creative vision without
losing the design intent. The range of products in scope are Instrument
Clusters, Head-Up Displays, and Infotainment systems.

Key Objectives of this Role:

• Responsible
  for the implementation and optimization of UI Design related projects or
  aspects of the projects in defined scene composers.


• Assure
  high visual quality and performance on the target hardware, by smart
  application and combination of tools and skills.


• High
  independent communication with internal teams and external partners and
  customers.


• Close
  collaboration with other Technical Artists, UI Designers and Graphic
  Engineers within the global design team and customer peers.


• Support
  UI designers on asset setup, create and/or customize assets to fit defined
  implementation strategy.


• Write
  performance optimized shaders in defined languages (e.g. GLSL) for
  materials, behavior and animations of graphical elements.


• Support
  the integration of pre-defined plug-ins, materials, and effects from VFX
  library with support of more experienced Technical Artists and Graphic
  Engineers.


• Work
  within defined toolchains and processes and focus on continuous
  improvements of the workflow


• Grow
  and maintain effective partnerships with internal and customer UI Design
  groups


• Asset
  Planning Delivery support for Lead Designer through JIRA


• Mentor
  Junior Technical Artists


• Documentation
  for best practices.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Quality
  of technical solutions and documentation.


• Committed
  deliveries on time


• Scope
  clarification with Customer and clear conversion of the same as tangible
  requirements for internal stakeholders


• Stakeholder
  satisfaction ? Customer Internal


• Cross-team
  collaboration for effective outcome


• Learnability
  for new tools and processes related to role


• Mentoring
  of junior Technical Artists.

Key Year One Deliverables:

• Roadmap
  Development: Define and document strategy roadmap with company objectives
  for the next 1?3 years


• Design
  System Contribution: Establish or enhance a scalable design system to
  promote consistency and efficiency


• Deliver
  technical solutions for assigned projects, validated by performance
  testing


• Participation
  in all Customer meetings related to role and define the scope with action
  points


• Mentor
  at least one Junior Technical Artist


• Learning
  and adoption of Visteon JIRA - Agile project management toolchain.

Qualification, Experience and Skills:

• 5-8
  years of working experience as a technical artist in the gaming industry,
  user interface or preferably the automotive area


• Expert skills in 3D modelling and 2D design tools,
  such as 3Dsmax, Maya, Blender


• Expert
  skills with scene composers or gaming enginelike Unity, Unreal Engine,
  Godot, KANZi, QT, CGI Studio, EB Guide, Altia or similar tools.


• Strong
  expertise in Blender Godot is advantageous


• Expert
  skills in After Effects for motion graphics with Good Knowledge of Adobe
  creative suite (Photoshop, Illustrator etc.) is must Working
  experience with RIVE is advantageous


• Furthermore,
  good knowledge in 3D poly modelling, texturing and animation would be
  required


• Scripting
  in C# for custom behavior definition will be advantageous


• Strong
  knowledge in shader coding (e.g. GLSL) and graphic languages, like OpenGL
  will be advantageous


• Affinity
  to new graphic rendering tools and languages, as well as technologies and
  willingness to apply these in the automotive context


• Experience
  with JIRA is advantageous


• Formal
  communication skills, including written, verbal in English is must


• Communication
  skills in Japanese language will be advantageous


• Familiarity
  with 4-wheeler driving acquaintance with vehicle interior controls will be highly advantageous.

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