Senior Associate Outsource Integrator

Job Description

Our outsourcing team is growing! As an Outsource Integrator, you will integrate and drive the quality of outsource character, vehicles or weapons assets into our game engine. You will act as the final gate for quality for technical aspects of the assets, checking that each adheres to our guidelines and fixing and giving feedback for those that don't. This position will focus on high-fidelity character/vehicles/weapons assets for our next blockbuster game.

Your Mission:

You should have a strong eye for art, animation, deformation quality and knowledge of real-time animation pipelines. They should be highly organized and able to deliver clear, concise communication both internally and externally. We'd like to speak with you!
• Integrate OS assets from external vendors using proprietary import tools
• Ensure that assets follow strict technical and artistic guidelines, fixing issues
• Work with leads to build asset packages for outsourcing, including collecting additional reference and writing technical specifications
• Continuously update art process guideline documentation with any changes that are required during development
• Proactively identify problems, propose solutions and work fluidly with other team members
• Push the graphical limitations of our engine, maintain frame rate requirements, and deliver content within memory and disk footprint budgets

Player Profile:
• Understanding of one or more real-time game engines.
• Experience in the following domains: rigging, animation (motion capture and hand-keyed animation), modeling, textures, physically-based materials, game export frameworks, asset pipelines, and workflows
• Familiarity with Maya and other industry leading applications.
• Work well in a large team environment, be proactive, and have excellent interpersonal skills.
• Patient and detail oriented, willing to address technical issues
• Highly organized

Extra Points:
• First Person Shooter development experience
• Havok Cloth experience
• Experience working with outsource studios
• Experience writing documentation and/or training others
• Substance Painter experience
• C++, Python, C# experience

Your Platform

We are situated in the San Francisco Bay Area; Melbourne, Australia; Toronto, Canada; and Guildford, UK. Across our four locations, we strive to be the most inclusive and encouraging game studio we can be.

We are very passionate about working together to make incredible AAA games for our players to enjoy and connect with. We're the studio behind Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty®: Advanced Warfare, Call of Duty®: WWII, and Call of Duty®: Vanguard. With elite audio, design, engineering, and art teams, we've been able to achieve some of the highest-quality game execution of any studio in the industry.

The strength of our team makes us not only excellent at what we do, but also how we do it. We truly believe in supporting our dedicated employees to be the best they can be. Here at Sledgehammer Games, everyone is a game maker. We think it's important to be constantly evolving, innovating, and taking risks – which are some of the most rewarding aspects of game development. We love what we do and work hard to make sure that each new game we make is even better than the last. Creativity is key, and we're looking for passionate game developers for our exciting next project.

Sledgehammer Games is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at www.sledgehammergames.com or search for Sledgehammer Games on your favorite social media platform. Want to hear what it's like at the studio directly from current employees? Check out our #LifeatSHG developer profiles: https://youtu.be/12DUBszg-w4

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d5ebz0-18-118-2-15-42 in your application.