Technical Consultant

Job Description

Position Overview

We are seeking an exceptional individual to join our talented Technical Consulting Team, reporting to the Technical Consulting Manager.

As a Houdini Technical Consultant (Games) your main role is to develop workflows and create tools with Houdini that enable a broad community of artists to create content procedurally. You are a Houdini advocate, communicating Houdini's value and features to our customers. As an experienced Games industry professional with strong and well-rounded Houdini skills, you are comfortable with on-the-spot troubleshooting. You are an excellent listener who takes the time to understand what our users hope to achieve and helps them reach their goals.

With strong communication skills, you love to share your knowledge with others and are comfortable presenting in a variety of media, both online and in person. We continue to expand rapidly into game development studios worldwide and would like you to bring your expertise to the thousands of artists who use our technology.

As part of the Technical Consulting Team, you will also work closely with R&D, Sales, Marketing and Education. You can expect occasional travel, sometimes internationally whether, for example, to visit customers or attend professional events.

Key Duties and Responsibilities
• Learn existing tools and workflows in Houdini.
• Communicate with customers both in person and on-line in meetings, webinars, live streams, and the like.
• Explore and prototype workflows and share the results with our R&D team.
• Identify, develop, test, document and deploy tools and workflows that solve real production problems for our customer.
• Support our Sales Team as needed by providing specialized knowledge to further relationships with both prospective and existing customers.
• Report on industry trends and relay customer feedback to internal teams as appropriate. Keep track of your interactions and make notes available to others at SideFX.
• Be a champion of our company and represent SideFX to the larger CG community.
• Participate as needed in public channels where Houdini tools are discussed.
• Occasionally visit studios and provide guidance on applying Houdini to production challenges, answering questions and solving technical problems on site.
• Occasionally create demo content to be shown at various trade shows and Houdini related events.
• From time to time conduct training for customers.
• Collaborate on materials to assist sales team in communicating with customers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Experience
• Fluency in using Houdini for a runtime context, preferably game production.
• Knowledge of the game development pipeline and related tools, including
demonstrated proficiency with Unity or Unreal Engine.
• Must have great interaction skills and the ability to connect with others in person and
online.
• Strong presentation skills, must be able to create and present content in Houdini fluently.
• Minimum of 3 years experience game industry, or related industry experience.
• Minimum of 3 years Houdini experience with demonstrated competency in a production setting.
• Must be willing and able to travel occasionally (~25-35 days per year), sometimes internationally.
• Ability to work and operate remotely.
• A demonstrated passion for procedural processes and tools, and a drive to share that
passion with artists.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.

Bonus Skills
• Realtime character experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with machine learning.
• Business development, marketing, education or sales experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a field relating to Game Development, Computer Science, Computer Graphics, or equivalent experience/education.
• Have experience as a Technical Artist or Lead Character Artist at a Games Studio.
• Experience creating learning materials or teaching production software.

Visit https://www.sidefx.com/careers/ for a full list of our current job openings.

Location

Toronto or Los Angeles office; Other locations will be considered within our company's possibilities.

SideFX is committed to inclusion and diversity. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. Accommodation will be provided to candidates with disabilities, upon request.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9q0k7-3-15-0-46-42 in your application.