Elevated Shopping is a newly formed team chartered with creating a best-in-class shopping experience for Premium and Luxury brands. We partner with the most inspiring, creative, and recognizable brands in the world and empower them to tell their personalized story. Elevated Shopping works across Amazon, from Home Page, Search, and Brand Stores to Amazon Fulfillment technologies to give brands and shoppers a delightful, elevated, and high-confidence shopping experience.
Elevated Shopping offers a dynamic workplace that is fueled by passionate collaboration. We take pride in developing cutting-edge technologies and products to provide immersive shopping experiences for the world’s largest selection. We are looking for a Sr. Design Techonologist to drive content creation innovation with experience in developing GenAI, 2D, and 3D workflows who understands technical problems the team may face from an artistic perspective and provide creative technical solutions.
This role is for if you want to be a part of:
- Driving the success and adoption of emerging GenAI driven 2D/3D experiences across Amazon
- Partnering with world-class artists and scientists to drive innovation in e-commerce content creation
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Design Technologist who can deliver pragmatic creative solutions to the technical problems related to Amazon visuals. The right person will bring an implicit understanding of the balance needed between artistry, communication, and partnership—help scale GenAI workflows, content creation within Amazon.
Design Technologists in this role will:
- Act as a bridge between art and engineering disciplines to solve multi-disciplinary problems
- Seek out and develop solutions to resolve workflow bottlenecks or asset quality issues through standardization and automation
- Collaborate with other Design Technologists and engineers to build and maintain a centralized suite of content creation products/tools
- Work with art leadership to research and implement the latest industry trends that expand our production capabilities.
- Advise on the creation and maintenance of asset pipelines for partner teams looking to adopt 3D content
A day in the life
As a 3D Systems Technologist will include but is not limited to AWS related tasks, and hardware & software license procurement, coding and development of tools, workflows, and automation to improve the artist's experience and increase productivity. A day could look like spinning up new EC2s and developing tools for Maya/Substance to creating an automation workflow that advances the fidelity of 3D/CGI experiences. An ideal candidate is observant, creative, curious, and empathetic. They believe that there is never just one approach to solve a given problem.
- 5+ years working in Systems computer-graphics related field (VFX, Games, Film, Motion Graphics) in a similar role (Systems Admin, Tech Artist, Pipeline TD, Pipeline Engineer, Art Tools Engineer)
- TypeScript
- AWS experience
- Deep understanding of content creation and delivery process
- Proficiency in a modern programming language
- Experience building and maintaining internal pipelines and toolsets, including user documentation and education
- Understanding of current generation of real-time and offline rendering and shader techniques
- Bachelor's Degree- Experience with Perforce
- Experience with AWS (EC2, AWS Systems Manager, VPC networking, FSx, Managed Active Directory, Thinkbox Deadline, Appstream, Cloud Development KIt.
- Broad knowledge of Maya, Unreal, Blender, Houdini, and Adobe Substance Suite
- Experience with VRay, Unreal, Unity, or equivalent renderers
- Interest or experience with e-commerce rendering trends (WebGL, glTF)
- Experience with Python/C++/C#/Java
- Experience designing and building artist tools that extend DCC (Digital Content Creation) software packages
- Experience extending creative project management tools (Jira, Shotgun, ftrack)
- Experience working with global outsourcing and contract-based content creation teams
- Ability to analyze and optimize assets for real-time rendering
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit
https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
