\n\n\nJob Title: Senior Facial Character TD (Senior Character TD)  \n\n \n\n\nSummary: Responsible for authoring facial rigs from scratch or utilizing a variety of high-resolution scan-data; participate in facial research & development efforts; pioneer and recommend new tools, techniques and technology for pushing visual boundaries, performance and efficiency. Responsible for a strong understanding of FACS and facial anatomy, as well as cutting edge approaches to facial technology. \n\n \n\n\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:  \n\n\n\n\n* \n\nAuthors high quality photorealistic facial rigs based on FACS using blendshapes \n\n\n* \n\nAuthors rigging systems to augment or support blendshape-based facial rigs \n\n\n* \n\nAuthors or contributes to systems/workflows for integrating head and body rigs \n\n\n* \n\nCollaborates with Character Art, Animation, and Engineering teams to deliver the highest quality assets with animator/mocap friendly interfaces that run smoothly in engine  \n\n\n* \n\nContributes to tools for authoring and editing facial rigs (python/pyqt/pyside) \n\n\n* \n\nContributes to automated tools and workflows for runtime optimization  \n\n\n* \n\nContributes to tools for ingesting 3rd party facial rigs \n\n\n* \n\nContributes to facial animation systems such as facial solvers and R&D (python/C++/Machine Learning)  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* \n\nSculpts FACS (from scratch if necessary) using deformers and/or sculpting tools \n\n\n* \n\nProcesses and cleans 3D or 4D scan data from FACS sessions \n\n\n* \n\nKeeps up with state-of-the-art approaches to facial rigging for photorealistic characters in film and games \n\n\n* \n\nHas strong understanding of facial shape transfer techniques and ability to implement shape transfer pipelines \n\n\n* \n\nMay be asked to direct actors through FACS during facial acquisitions \n\n\n* \n\nMay ingest and integrate facial assets from 3rd parties \n\n\n* \n\nMay be expected to maintain relationships and provide feedback to external vendors \n\n\n* \n\nOther duties may be assigned  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupervisory Responsibilities:  This role has no supervisory duties but may mentor other TD’s with regard to facial mechanics, rigging, sculpting, or solving techniques. \n\n \n\n\nQualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. \n\n \n\n\nEducation/Experience: Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university; or five to seven years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. One to four years of experience in character setup, Python scripting, a familiarity with MEL and a comprehensive understanding of all technical aspects of Maya animation. One to two years of animation training covering all basic animation principals.  \n\n \n\n\nLanguage Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.  Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.  Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.  Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors. \n\n \n\n\nMathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and linear algebra and trigonometry.  Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations. \n\n \n\n\nReasoning Skills: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. \n\n\n\nComputer Skills: Expert-level experience with Maya. Experience sculpting details with ZBrush, Mudbox, or comparable; processing scan data with Wrap3 or comparable; with deformation transfer workflows. Preferred experience with machine-learning based solutions for facial scanning/authoring/solving (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc); authoring plugins that aid in facial deformation transfer or solving (python or C++); and working with faces in realtime (Unity, Unreal or other). \n\n\n\n\nOther Skills: Strong understanding of state-of-the-art approaches to rigging photorealistic faces for film or games; of FACS, how it relates to facial anatomy, and ability to identify primary action units on sight; Understands current approaches to facial performance capture & solving; of modern approaches to scanning including lightstage and 4D scanning \n\n\n\nExpert understanding of facial skeletal and muscle anatomy; Passion for achieving highest quality detail through iteration and refinement. Ability to think outside the box to achieve more realistic solutions or optimize runtime performance. Passion for collaborating and sharing knowledge across teams.  \n\n\n\nPhysical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. \n\n \n\n\nWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. \n\n \n\n\nWork Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Education, Senior and Legal jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
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\n\n#Location\nBurbank, California, United States

\nWaabi, founded by AI pioneer and visionary Raquel Urtasun, is an AI company building the next generation of self-driving technology. With a world class team and an innovative approach that unleashes the power of AI to “drive” safely in the real world, Waabi is bringing the promise of self-driving closer to commercialization than ever before. Waabi is backed by best-in-class investors across the technology, logistics and the Canadian innovation ecosystem.\n\n\nWith offices in Toronto and San Francisco, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai\n\n\nYou will...\n- Contribute to Waabi’s cutting edge AV stack and data-driven simulator.\n- Build and own robust, petabyte-scale ETL pipelines for ingesting and aggregating multi-sensor data to produce the maps leveraged both by Waabi World, as well by our autonomy software.\n- Be part of a team of multidisciplinary Engineers, Research Scientists, and Product Managers using an AI-first approach to enable safe self-driving at scale.\n- Interact with all areas of autonomy and simulation, many of which will be direct customers of maps.\n- Have the chance to learn about, and integrate numerous cutting-edge ML models into various stages of Waabi’s data pipelines: semantic segmentation, automated map annotation, 3D surface reconstruction, etc.\n- Collaborate closely with other teams including research scientists, ML and software engineers, and system engineers to understand use cases and deliver features that improve our overall data ecosystem.\n- Bring your expertise to provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, and contribute to org-wide data architecture decision-making.\n- Assist in project roadmap planning, prioritization, and delivery.\n\n\nQualifications:\n- 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining high-performance production data pipelines, including deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and cloud storage services like AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage.\n- Solid coding proficiency and knowledge in Python and a compiled language like C++ or Rust.\n- Solid understanding of cloud job orchestration, monitoring, and instrumentation best-practices.\n- Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others.\n- Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.\n\n\nBonus/nice to have:\n- Experience writing production software in Rust.\n- Experience with MapReduce frameworks (Apache Hadoop/Spark) or orchestration frameworks like Apache Beam/Apache Airflow/Google Dataflow.\n- Familiarity with robotic sensor (LiDAR, camera) data.\n- Good documentation and technical writing skills.\n- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe US yearly salary range for this role is: $129,000 - $238,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi (US) Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. The salary base range is reflective of the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.  Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus.\n\n\nPerks/Benefits:\n- Competitive compensation and equity awards.\n- Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).\n- Unlimited Vacation.\n- Flexible hours and Work from Home support.\n- Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).\n- Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.\n- As we grow, this list continues to evolve! \n\n\nWaabi is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and accessible environment for all employees. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, caregiver status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. We make workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Cloud, Senior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nToronto, CAN, San Francisco, CA & Remote - US & Canada