Technical Artist - Generative AI R&D

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Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hybrid
60K-140K Annually
Senior level
Digital Media • Information Technology
The Role
Seeking a Technical Artist skilled in Generative AI to create photorealistic content and manage complex node-based workflows. Responsibilities include asset delivery, video generation R&D, and collaboration with production teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.

Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:

Mission: ISS
Disney Pixar Coco VR
Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab
The Lion King - Virtual Production
Elixir

Top Skills

Ai-Generated Media
Comfyui
Diffusion Transformers
Flow Matching
Generative Ai
Photoshop
Python
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The Company
Los Angeles, California
217 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Experience Engineers uniting the physical & digital. Using #spatialcomputing, #AI, & #cloudtech, we imagine, create, & execute impactful immersive solutions. Located in the US and UK, we are empowered by an Academy Award-winning team of designers, artists, engineers, and "get it done"​ producers who bring a diverse body of experience and creative solutions to the field. Our unique focus on story and content-driven technology development gives us advance access to some of our partner's over-the-horizon hardware and software developments in light field technology, holographic and translucent displays, HMDs, performance capture, and new human computing interfaces. We're honored to have a diverse team of talented individuals building products and experiences that have a positive impact on people's everyday lives, whether in entertainment, education, industry, or government

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