Technical Artist

Arkose Labs is the world leader in Account Security (G2, Gartner). We are trusted by the World's largest digital brands including Microsoft, PayPal, Snap, Adobe, Twitter, Chime, Roblox, and Minecraft. Our customers are happy customers and continue to expand at a rapid rate giving Arkose an industry leading 145% Net Retention Rate (you keep the accounts you sell to you so you can expand across more of their business).

Backed by Softbank, Microsoft, Wells Fargo and Paypal, Arkose Labs is in a strong financial position having recently raised $114M. You would be helping with our mission to create an online environment where all consumers are protected from malicious activity. The Arkose Platform combines real-time intelligence, rich analytics and adaptive step-up challenges to progressively diminish the profitability of attacks while adapting to evolving attack patterns. Arkose Labs offers the world's first and only $1 million credential stuffing warranty.

**Position Summary**

We are looking for a self-driven Technical Artist to come onboard and help us develop state of the art captcha challenges. You will be working with the team conceptualizing and developing captcha challenges by using Blender in combination with Python to generate images at scale. These challenge images are then AB tested on live audiences and tested against in-house machine learning tools to determine their strength against automation. The challenges are used across a wide range of popular services. Your work will help protect many of the services you know and love on the internet.

You will be expected to innovate with new puzzle ideas and follow through to produce the puzzle at scale with suitable amounts of image variation. Then validate metrics for puzzle solvability on real humans, and how difficult the puzzle is to solve using automation techniques. We place a large emphasis on automating menial tasks and encourage tool development to help both yourself and the team to increase productivity.

While experience with machine learning is not expected, it would be a massive help both from the intuitions about how machine learning works and helping us to develop better techniques.

**Must have**:

- 5+ years experience with 3d software ( At least +2 of which should be Blender)
- Scripting Experience
- Lateral thinking and problem solving
- 3d modelling and sculpting (zbrush/blender)
- Asset management experience (eg, perforce, plastic SCM, github)
- Drive to create internal tooling/automation to improve processes
- A quality driven mindset

**Nice to have**:

- Experience working in cyber security
- 3+ Years Experience with Python
- Game concept prototyping/POCs
- Experience with scripting inside of Blender
- Javascript experience
- Html + CSS
- Data interpretation and validation
- Game design
- User experience testing
- Experience in 3d animation
- Experience with machine learning / vision
- Illustration skills
- Experience with Jira
- Familiarity with AWS (s3, dynamodb)
- Experience communicating with customers

**Why Arkose Labs?**

Join an early stage, fast growing startup with pioneering technology built by passionate and ambitious people.

Work with some of the biggest names in the market, such as Microsoft, Paypal, EA, Github, Twitch, Roblox, Twilio, and Minecraft

We value **your** unique contributions, perspectives, and experiences. Be part of a diverse and high performing environment that prioritizes collaboration, excellence, and inclusion. We hire the best, focus on their professional development, and offer support for continuing education.

**We value**:

- **People -** independent thinkers making data-driven decisions and taking project ownership
- **Teamwork -** building trust, respect, and integrity to openly communicate and constructively challenge one another
- **Customer Focus -** customer empathy and problem-solving obsession
- **Execution -** actions with precision, professionalism, and urgency
- **Security -** our lens for implementing processes, procedures, and programs

**Benefits**:

- We focus on professional growth and development and offer continuing education.
- Flexible hardware options (e.g. Mac, Linux)
- Drinks and team activities every Friday from 2pm
- Flexible working hours and working from home days
- Excellent work/life balance

Arkose Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Arkose Labs will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

All employees of Arkose Labs are required to comply with its COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, which includes individual vaccination requirements for U.S. i