AE Live is a world-leading provider of real-time graphics for major sports events and broadcasters around the world. Some of our clients include BBC, ITV, Sky, Fox, Star and ESPN as well as World Cups in Football, Rugby, Cricket and many more.

We are looking for a Technical Artist with 3+ years' experience working with Unreal Engine. You will be working as part of a growing, small team creating data-driven 3D graphics within live television productions. You will join us in our passion to push the boundaries of what has previously been seen in virtual TV studios.

Whatever your background - this is an excellent opportunity to work on innovative, high profile, live broadcast projects where your work will be seen by hundreds of millions of people all over the world.

Key Responsibilities

Working with clients and colleagues to design, revise and build data driven 3D information graphics in Unreal Engine.
Creating and editing all 2D and 3D content as required (geometries, textures, materials).
Working extensively with Blueprints to create and add complex functionality.
General optimisations for real-time performance balanced with visual quality.
Staying up to date on relevant tools and technologies such as PBR and photo-realistic rendering, VR, digital content creation tools etc.

Required skills

Advanced knowledge of:
- Unreal Engine
- Blueprints
- Materials/Shaders

Intermediate or above:
- Modelling
- UV Unwrapping
- UMG
- Animation/Sequencer

Basic or above:
- Experience with at least one programming language (C++, C#, Java etc) and/or scripting (Python, Ruby etc.)

Advantages

Motion design
Experience with Perforce version control
Graphic Design/data visualisation
Experience in broadcast production environments
PC / Hardware knowledge
Desktop application development