Technical Artist

Brainrider is a marketing and creative agency with teams in Menlo Park/San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, London, and Toronto. We work with ambitious marketers, in-house creative teams, and internal agencies to do more, by filling capability and capacity gaps and enabling them to execute their marketing and creative at scale.  

We believe collaboration is at its best when we feel at home, so we work as a team — plain and simple. Whether we’re brainstorming better marketing ideas for our clients, or pushing the gas to meet a tight deadline, it all happens with adaptability, optimism, and teamwork. 

Are you our next team member?

The Role

Job Title: Technical Artist

Length: 3 months

Estimated Start: February 10th

Remote

Brainrider is seeking a Technical Artist to join our client embedded team. The Technical Artist will be responsible for the technical aspects of creative asset development. You'll work closely with our clients Design and Engineering teams to support and develop the production pipeline, develop shaders, and translate designs into code. Your focus in this role will be building creative tools with a significant amount of production – shared writing and design development integration for things including filters, text effects, video transitions, and other types of creative elements.

What you'll do

• Partner closely with the engineering and design teams to produce creative assets by developing shaders and translating designs into code
• Design and manage the technical production pipelines, including developing tools and functional prototypes
• Quickly solve issues with cross-functional leads
• Thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environment

What you'll bring

• 3+ years of experience as a creative coder / technical artist with authoring shaders in GLSL or Meta
• Bachelor's degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience required
• Provide portfolio (previous work, projects, etc).
• Experience in creative coding frameworks (openFrameworks, Processing, Cinder, or Three.j)
• Experience programming with JavaScript, Java, C++ or C#
• Solid understanding of computer graphics fundamentals
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Problem-solving ability
• Collaboration skills (cross functional with visual designers, software engineers, artists, etc.).
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong organization skills

Bonus

• CS or Media Arts or Digital Media background
• Creativity – experience working on creative tools or shaders for mobile products
• Product design background
• Mobile-specific experience
• Graphics engineering or skills/experience in computer graphic fundamentals

Additional Information

We offer competitive salaries, paid vacation, work from home (WFH) support and set-up assistance, and a wide variety of other great perks!

The fine print:

• Please include current resume, cover letter and portfolio URL, as we would like to learn more about you and your experience
• Candidates selected for next steps will be contacted
• You can learn more about working with us at Brainrider Careers

Brainrider is a place where everyone can do their best work and be themselves. We work as a team, plain and simple. We respect and value the unique characteristics, skills, and experiences of everyone, and support and champion each other to be the best we can be — for ourselves, our team, and our clients. We recognize that a diverse and inclusive workplace leads to better ideas, better solutions, and better results. And we’re here for that — and for you. We #ridetogether.

Relocation and sponsorship are not provided.