Material Artist

Summary

Join Higharc, a VC-backed startup revolutionizing new home design and construction, as a Technical Material Artist. Contribute to our architecture visualization team, creating high-quality environment art assets and scenes. Leverage your game development experience and expertise in procedural materials to build industry-leading assets. This fully remote role, based anywhere in the continental US, requires a strong portfolio and may involve an art test. Higharc offers competitive salaries, equity, comprehensive benefits, flexible hours, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years professional experience creating high quality, game ready environment assets
• Have shipped at least 1 major game title using level creation tools like Unreal Editor/Engine
• Can demonstrate an incredible portfolio with the best examples of realistic materials and texture systems
• Expert knowledge of PBR based realistic texture/material pipelines and toolsets (including Adobe Photoshop, Substance Designer)
• Solid understanding of procedural texturing techniques and HDR pipelines
• Able to work independently to a high level of quality solving visual and technical challenges
• Self-driven with strong communication skills and are comfortable working in an environment of honest feedback and iteration
• Detail focused with an eye toward accuracy and consistency with the ability to build accurate material assets from physical samples or reference images
• Experienced managing texture and shader efficiency
• Proficient in UV layout and lightmap authoring and editing
• A passion for interior and architectural design

Responsibilities

• Create and refine detailed photo-realistic and representational materials that are visually and technically industry leading
• Create benchmark art assets and best practices guides
• Ensure that material assets meet the performance and memory requirements
• Develop procedural and system based materials required for rendering physically based game interactive environments
• UV layout for tiling and 0-1 mapped textures
• Contribute to improvement of environment art pipelines and asset quality

Benefits

• Competitive salaries with significant equity in a fast-growing, well-funded company
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Unlimited PTO
• Meaningful maternity/paternity leave
• Short and long-term disability plans
• A 401k
• A stipend to help you create the ideal home-office
• Flexible hours