Technical Artist / Virtual Reality for Tilt Brush

Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language we now offer dozens of products and services—including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks in scores of languages.

You will play a vital role in building out a new medium for computing and entertainment. Virtual Reality (VR) is rapidly evolving as an important new area in personal computing and content creation. As a Technical Artist, you will develop tools and technologies in concert with Unity and other engines, and you will use those tools and technologies to build incredible, high-quality VR content. You will also work with researchers,designers and engineers to build functional prototypes out of new concepts and turn successful prototypes into production ready experiences with robust, cross-platform, implementations.

* Create 2D and 3D content including textures, models, lighting/lightmaps, particles and shaders where necessary. Find innovative solutions and techniques to assure those assets achieve a locked, high framerate. * Work closely with Design (i.e. art, UX) and our Engineering team by creating solutions and tools that enhance the creation process and optimize pipeline for prototyping and production environments. * Build VR features for existing applications and prototype new ones; Support diverse clients, including small footprint mobile devices. * Contribute to the overall vision and user strategy for Cardboard/VR apps and platforms, from concept exploration through implementation. * Work with the art and engineering teams to make sure VR applications hit their performance targets and never drop a frame.

**Minimum qualifications:** 3 years relevant work experience in game development or other real time entertainment. **Preferred qualifications:** * Scripting experience including Python, PyMEL, MEL script and Lua. * Experience creating fantastic and polished 3D visuals including particles, lighting, atmospherics, post processing, and/or shaders where necessary. * Experience in game development and with both high end (desktop) rendering engines and 3D mobile rendering engines. * Unity experience creating tools, plugins, scripts, editor debug and asset import tools, integrating additional libraries and external plugins. * Passion for virtual reality and the future of 3D content creation.