3D Generalist

Overview

Our team at Aque­nt is look­ing for a 3D Gen­er­al­ist to devel­op and imple­ment cut­ting-edge 3D con­tent and sys­tems in a fast-paced research and devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment for a client whose HQ is in Cuper­ti­no. The indi­vid­ual should be a 3D gen­er­al­ist with expe­ri­ence mod­el­ing for offline and/or real time envi­ron­ments, syn­thet­ic data, pro­ce­dur­al sys­tems, machine learn­ing, and out­sourced con­tent. The indi­vid­ual must be able to col­lab­o­rate with cross func­tion­al teams to plan and devel­op var­i­ous con­tent. The ide­al can­di­date under­stands con­tent, work­flow chal­lenges, and push­ing visu­al tech­ni­cal bound­aries.

Key Qual­i­fi­ca­tions:

• 5+ years of AAA video game, fea­ture film, or VFX expe­ri­ence
• Pro­fi­cien­cy in mul­ti­ple con­tent appli­ca­tions like Maya, 3DS Max, Sub­stance, Hou­di­ni or oth­ers
• Gen­er­al knowl­edge of off-line ren­der­ing pipelines (VRay), and real-time engines
• Pro­fi­cient in auto­mat­ed and man­u­al asset con­ver­sion (mesh, mate­ri­als, etc)
• Pro­fi­cient in phys­i­cal­ly based ren­der­ing, cam­era set­up, light­ing, scene mat­ting, and mate­r­i­al cal­i­bra­tion
• Abil­i­ty to deliv­er high-visu­al qual­i­ty with­in performance/time con­straints
• Gen­er­al knowl­edge of Python/PyMEL,MaxScript or C/C++

Edu­ca­tion:

• Bach­e­lors or Mas­ter in Com­put­er Arts or sim­i­lar; and 3+ years of indus­try expe­ri­ence

Addi­tion­al Expe­ri­ence:

• Extreme­ly detail-ori­ent­ed, nam­ing con­ven­tions, asset require­ments, effi­cient, and high qual­i­ty work
• Abil­i­ty to iden­ti­fy oppor­tu­ni­ties for visu­al, work­flow, and effi­cien­cy improve­ments
• Abil­i­ty to work quick­ly and flex­i­bly in a pro­to­typ­ing envi­ron­ment
• Desire to pro­ce­du­ral­ly gen­er­ate con­tent with­out sac­ri­fic­ing artis­tic integri­ty
• Excel­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tion and team­work skills

The tar­get hir­ing com­pen­sa­tion range for this role is $54.72 to $60.80 an hour. Com­pen­sa­tion is based on sev­er­al fac­tors includ­ing, but not lim­it­ed to edu­ca­tion, rel­e­vant work expe­ri­ence, rel­e­vant cer­ti­fi­ca­tions, and loca­tion.