General Motors · 2 days ago
Staff 3D Content Pipeline Engineer
Campus, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $246K/yr
5+ years expGeneral Motors is seeking a Staff 3D Content Pipeline Engineer to join their team of engineers and artists focused on developing high-fidelity simulations for self-driving cars. This role involves leading the development of asset generation pipelines, optimizing rendering processes, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to enhance simulation technology.
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Responsibilities
3D Asset Pipeline Development: Lead the development of a cutting-edge asset generation pipeline for our new real-time, GPU-based ray tracing engine, defining the foundational standards and conventions that will drive future advancements in photorealistic simulation
Content Authoring Tools: Integrate external Digital Content Creation tools such as Maya and Unreal Editor with our simulation and rendering stack. Build workflows to author assets for our USD based renderer
Rendering Optimization: Architect and implement advanced content authoring strategies to significantly reduce cloud compute costs, leveraging state-of-the-art techniques in geometry, material, shader, and texture optimization to achieve optimal performance
Performance Monitoring: Develop systems to validate and monitor asset fidelity and performance, actively analyzing realism perceived by computer vision models
Scripting and Automation: Develop tools and scripting APIs to automate the creation and management of assets
Tool Development: Assist artists and engineers via tool development, concept testing of new ideas, and building rapid prototypes
Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, designers, and researchers to understand testing requirements and translate them into effective simulation environments. Work hand in hand with Cruise Machine Learning Engineers to develop simulations that best test and train our ML Models
Quality Assurance: Provide front-line production support across multiple disciplines, troubleshoot assets and scenarios, and help artists with problem-solving. Triage and redirect problems to appropriate engineering teams
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience as a technical artist (or equivalent capacity) in visual effects, animation, simulators, 3D games, or other high-performance systems
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, specifically with a concentration or focus in Computer Graphics
Proven experience creating Python scripts to streamline content creation
Experience with C++ for performance critical engineering and software application development
Strong 3D content pipeline knowledge with a deep understanding of modeling, texturing, animation, and lighting
Proficient with profiling tools to diagnose performance issues and identify how to optimize scenes
In-depth knowledge of real-time rendering including physically-based rendering (PBR) pipelines, shader authoring in MDL (or similar shader language) or shader graphs as well as shader performance profiling and optimization
Preferred
Demonstrated experience in generating high-quality synthetic data for machine learning model training and validation, with an understanding of its critical role in autonomous system development
NVidia Optix, MDL, and USD experience is highly desirable
Film or VFX Studio tools or Pipeline Engineer experience
Unreal Engine 4 experience with blueprints and material editor
Maya experience
A portfolio or reel, including a detailed breakdown of your work in each section
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Retirement savings plan
Sickness and accident benefits
Life insurance
Paid vacation & holidays
Tuition assistance programs
Employee assistance program
GM vehicle discounts
Company
General Motors
General Motors is an automotive company that designs, produces, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.51BKey Investors
US Department of Energy
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2024-10-31Grant· $8M
2024-07-11Grant· $500M
Leadership Team
Mary Barra
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Tony Cervone
Senior Vice President, Global Communications
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