Technical Artist: Avatar Systems at Genies
Company: Genies
Location: Los Angeles, California / San Francisco, California, USA
Job Type: Full-Time (Hybrid)
Salary: $130K – $180K + Equity
About Genies
Genies is an AI avatar technology company powering the visual and embodiment layer for AI. Through the Genies SDK, the company’s proprietary avatar framework brings AI to life as fully realized AI personas that look, think, behave, and play like living identities. Genies supports AI companion, NPC, agent, enterprise, consumer, creator, entertainment, and gaming use cases. Backed by investors including Silver Lake, BOND, and Bob Iger, Genies has raised over $200M to shape the future of AI personas.
Job Overview
Genies is seeking an experienced Technical Artist: Avatar Systems to help build the next generation of avatar creation tools. This role combines expertise in character rigging, geometry processing, procedural systems, and AI-assisted workflows to develop scalable, production-ready avatars across multiple platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and extend modular avatar systems using automated rigging and AI-assisted workflows.
- Develop and scale cloud-based rigging and deformation systems for interoperable avatars and assets.
- Apply procedural and machine learning techniques to solve complex asset creation and customization challenges.
- Integrate generative AI into internal and public-facing 3D content pipelines.
- Collaborate with ML engineering, art, and product teams to prototype and ship tools and workflows.
- Define technical standards, benchmarks, and best practices across systems and pipelines.
- Mentor senior team members and drive technical direction across projects.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in Technical Art, Character TD, or similar roles.
- Strong programming skills in Python and C++.
- Deep expertise in character rigging, skinning, and deformation systems.
- Experience transferring rigging data across meshes including skin weights, blend shapes, UVs, and textures.
- Strong knowledge of 3D math, linear algebra, and mesh topology.
- Proven experience building scalable, production-grade pipelines and tools.
- Experience with procedural and machine learning techniques in 3D workflows.
- Experience with USD composition concepts such as layering, references, payloads, and variants.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills across engineering, ML, art, and product teams.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Parental leave.
- Hybrid work structure with minimum 4 days in office weekly.
- Monthly wellness reimbursement.