Technical Artist in Lucid Reality Labs

At the moment we are looking for a Technical Artist, who will use their knowledge of programming and art to integrate Lucid reality Labs 3D Art and Animation visual content into our VR, XR and AR projects, with a primary focus on the Unity Engine:

Responsibilities:

• Liaising between heads of programming and design teams
• Researching and developing technical tools for a project
• Creating and editing shaders (HLSL, Shader Graph, Amplify) 
• Supporting artists and engineers in the 3D art pipeline
• Assisting in asset performance and validation
• Solving complex technical issues during development
• Deciding on what software and tools are required for production
• Developing and maintaining resources and pipelines along with programmers
• Porting finished art to the game engine
• Ensuring final art runs to full visual fidelity
• Working within the limits of the game engine, curating file sizes, polygon counts and loading speeds
• Enforcing standards as outlined by heads of departments
• Developing tools to support production pipeline
• Setting up character animations and controllers
• Optimizing environments and establishing physics barriers
• Creating realtime and baked lighting setups 
• Researching and overseeing the implementation of rendering techniques
• Developing performance of frame rate and memory
• Building navigation data and colliders for complex scenes
• Monitoring the performance of the application
• Maintaining technical documentation

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

Soft Skills:

• 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.
   

Technologies: Primarily Unity Game Engine, Unreal Engine Knowledge a bonus.

What we offer:

• 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.