Remote or New York City NY
About Pahdo Labs
The Role
As a senior technical artist for characters at Pahdo Labs, you will:
- Work closely with our engineering and art teams to help turn our artists’ vision of a beautiful, anime-themed world into reality
- Develop and own a 3D character pipeline, including modeling, texturing, rigging, and shaders
- Write tools and pipelines to support the animation team, such as a tool for technical markup in Maya, export/import scripts, and Perforce integrations
Responsibilities
- Set the foundation for the character pipeline to bring our characters to life
- Research and develop creative and performant rigs for a variety of character designs
- Create tools and workflows to enable an efficient import and export pipeline
- Finish your mission and tasks with autonomy, occasionally taking on the role of a project lead or producer if necessary
Desired Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in rigging, technical art, or character technical director roles
- Past experience with Maya, Python/PySide2/PyQT5, other scripting languages
- Strong communication and collaboration skills in a remote work environment
- Have helped ship a title from start to finish, especially multiplayer action games with an isometric camera (e.g., Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III, League of Legends)
- Willing to work with Godot Engine
Nice-to-Haves
- 8+ years of experience in rigging, technical art, or character technical director roles
- Past experience working in Godot Engine or with C++
- Abilities in areas such as modeling, animating, VFX, and shaders
- Past experience working on cross-platform titles and/or massively multiplayer hero-based games (e.g., Genshin Impact, Overwatch)
- Familiarity with UGC game platforms and tools like Roblox, Rec Room, Halo Forge, RPG Maker, and Mario Maker
- Love for anime and stylized cel-shaded 3D and 2D art styles, and past experience working on projects with that kind of look
Our Perks:
- Salary Range: $95,000 - $170,000
- Unlimited paid time off with 2-week vacation minimum
- 100% employer-paid medical, vision, and dental insurance for the employee
If interested, please email us at hello@pahdolabs.com with a resume, and links to any portfolios that you can share!