You will be part of a creative and exciting team that will leverage the latest rendering technology to deliver a state-of-the-art visual system and introduce innovative capabilities into simulation products. As an experienced technical artist, you will bring your industry experience to develop the next generation high-fidelity visual system and synthetic environment for flight simulators. The ideal candidate is passionate about working in technology and games.

In this role, you will:

• Create new visual effects or optimize graphics features - such as precipitations, fire, smoke, weapon effects, helicopter recirculation/downwash, ocean wakes, flares, contrails.
• Express your creativity and initiative in developing these graphical effects while providing pilots the critical training cues they need
• Work with multiple teams to collaborate and solve complex technical challenges
• Develop and optimize rendering techniques used to push visual quality level
• Optimize visual effects performance for real time operation while maximizing high fidelity realism
• Actively participate in code reviews
• Stay up to date on technology trends

Requirements

• BS Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• A great programmer, that is more than comfortable writing code
• Experience with Unreal Engine and the Niagara particle system
• Well-versed in software engineering principles
• Experience in a cross-disciplinary development environment, with excellent cross-discipline communication skills