Remote Technical Artist

Summary

Join Lucid Reality Labs, a top XR company, and become a Tech Artist contributing to cutting-edge VR, XR, and AR projects. You will integrate 3D art and animation into Unity Engine projects, collaborating with programming and design teams. This role requires strong Unity Engine expertise, art pipeline knowledge, and scripting skills. You'll be responsible for developing technical tools, optimizing assets, and ensuring visual fidelity. Lucid Reality Labs offers a flexible work environment, paid vacation and sick leave, and access to XR technologies.

Requirements

• High attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with Unity’s Particle System and/or VFX Graph
• A strong portfolio or demo reel
• Solid understanding of art and animation pipelines
• Strong knowledge of Unity Engine and Rendering pipelines Unity provides
• Setting up workflows of art production
• Familiarity with game systems and the game development process
• Scripting skills - C#
• Good proficiency with Unity’s NavMesh system
• Strong mechanical aptitude
• Spatial awareness and attention to detail
• Ability to look up and understand technical data
• Critical thinking and strong reasoning skills
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Liaise between heads of programming and design teams
• Research and develop technical tools for a project
• Create and edit shaders (HLSL, Shader Graph, Amplify)
• Support artists and engineers in the 3D art pipeline
• Assist in asset performance and validation
• Solve complex technical issues during development
• Decide on what software and tools are required for production
• Develop and maintain resources and pipelines along with programmers
• Port finished art to the game engine
• Ensure final art runs to full visual fidelity
• Work within the limits of the game engine, curating file sizes, polygon counts, and loading speeds
• Enforce standards as outlined by heads of departments
• Develop tools to support the production pipeline
• Set up character animations and controllers
• Optimize environments and establish physics barriers
• Create real-time and baked lighting setups
• Research and oversee the implementation of rendering techniques
• Develop performance of frame rate and memory
• Build navigation data and colliders for complex scenes
• Monitor the performance of the application
• Maintain technical documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in creating custom RPs is a big plus
• Familiarity with the Unreal Engine a Bonus
• Unreal Engine Knowledge a bonus

Benefits

• 24 working days paid vacation, 7 days sick leave, and public holidays
• Flexible working hours of remote work
• Open-minded and outside-the-box ideas embodied in life
• Award-winning and diverse team to grow together
• Access to XR technologies
• Minimum bureaucracy and a great working environment