Description
Technical Artist - Generative AI R&D
Team: Technical Art
Location: Los Angeles, United States
Commitment: Project
Workplace Type: hybrid
Salary:
Salaries offered are based on candidate experience, internal equity, and the level at which they are hired.
We are looking for an experienced Technical Artist with a strong focus on Generative AI to create stunning, photorealistic imagery and motion content using advanced node-based workflows and open-source pipelines. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise in working with the latest architectures in Generative AI media, moving beyond standard checkpoint prompting into complex, multimodal workflows.
You will possess a strong artistic eye for generating high-quality, photorealistic characters and environments, alongside the technical ability to adapt rapidly to the newest developments in open-source research. A high level of skill with Photoshop is essential for preparing and refining AI-generated assets to ensure they meet the visual quality standards of our projects.
Responsibilities
- Advanced Generative Pipelines: Design and maintain complex workflows in ComfyUI, integrating cutting-edge research to solve production challenges.
- Production Asset Delivery: Generate final, screen-ready character elements for a feature film in production, ensuring deliverables meet strict artistic standards within the standard review and approval cycle.
- Video Generation R&D: Lead the exploration and implementation of open-source video generation models. Focus on maintaining temporal consistency, high-fidelity motion, and integrating image-to-video and video-to-video workflows.
- Next-Gen Image Editing: Utilize recent advancements in instruction-based editing and accelerated inference models (turbo/distilled architectures) to allow for rapid iteration and precise, prompt-driven manipulation of existing assets.
- Precision Control: Leverage conditioning tools (e.g., ControlNet, IP-Adapter) to shape and define the output of AI-generated media, ensuring precise control over composition, pose, and style.
- Asset Training & Fine-Tuning: Manage workflows for training and implementing adapters (LoRA) and embeddings to generate consistent results that fit the specific artistic vision of the project.
- Photoshop Refinement: Prepare and refine AI-generated assets in Photoshop, utilizing traditional digital art techniques to correct artifacts and composite layers for the highest quality finish.
- Collaboration: Work closely with artists and production teams to integrate generative AI techniques into the overall pipeline, ensuring smooth workflows for photorealistic content.
Required Qualifications
- Technical Expertise: Advanced proficiency with ComfyUI and Python scripting for custom node creation is highly preferred. Ability to troubleshoot and optimize complex node graphs.
- Experience: At least 5 years of professional experience in a technical creative role (e.g., Technical Artist, Creative Technologist, or Digital Designer) demonstrating a mastery of high-fidelity, feature-film quality digital art workflows and technical problem-solving.
- Generative Video & Image Expertise: Deep understanding of current neural network architectures, including Diffusion Transformers (DiT) and Flow Matching. Experience working with open-source video models and large-scale image editing models is essential.
- Photoshop Proficiency: Advanced skills and knowledge using Photoshop to refine photorealistic imagery and prepare input assets.
- Model Management: Experience managing compatibility between various architecture types, ensuring the correct use of VAEs, text encoders, and floating-point precision standards when transitioning between different generations of open-source models.
- Portfolio: A strong portfolio that demonstrates your ability to combine technical expertise and artistic vision using generative AI techniques for both static and moving images.
Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.
Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.
We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.
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