Job Description

Location: Santa Clara, CA or Canada (Montreal, Toronto or Ottawa)

As the tech firm that created the mobile world, and with more than 54,000 patents to our name, we’ve made it our business to make a mark. When joining our team at Ericsson you are empowered to learn, lead and perform at your best, shaping the future of technology. This is a place where you're welcomed as your own perfectly unique self, and celebrated for the skills, talent, and perspective you bring to the team. Are you in?

Come, and be where it begins.

Our Exciting Opportunity

Ericsson One, an internal venture studio that brings ground-breaking ideas and new products to market is now looking for an 3D Artist to help build the 3D future of human connection. Our team is built to innovate, adapt quickly, and craft the future for Ericsson. In other words, we have the best of both worlds: the energy of a startup and the impact of a global leader. Project Spectre has recently been awarded Ericsson’s 2020 Top Performance Award for Innovation and is now coming out of stealth. Spectre plans to use Ericsson’s worldwide scale to launch a ground-breaking product that sits at the intersection of deep learning, computer vision, computer graphics and XR (VR/AR). We are looking for people who have a start-up mentality; people who are creative, hardworking, inventive, and capable of helping us launch this innovative business globally. Our vision is to enable a new generation of genuine, connected experiences through the democratization of digital humans. Join us for the adventure of a lifetime!

You will

• Create 3D characters, clothes, accessories, and props at multiple levels of detail (LOD), to specific technical and aesthetic guidelines (and contribution to the establishment of these guidelines!)
• Help maintain a high level of perceived fidelity across multiple platforms, with your bag of practical tricks and deep insights across the 3D asset pipeline
• Share your experience and knowledge with researchers and engineers across disciplines to advance AR/VR research, prototypes, and groundbreaking user experiences
• Bonus points if you can comfortably contribute to facial digitization, tracking, rigging and animation pipelines, via tools like Reality Capture and R3DS Wrap/Track
  

To be successful in the role you must have

• Proven industry experience with modeling and texturing, especially in the context of realistic 3D characters
• 2+ years of experience with tools such as Zbrush, Maya, Photoshop, and Substance Painter
  

Separate yourself from the rest if you also have

• Proficiency in Unity, Unreal, or other major game engines
• Experience with face digitization, rigging, animation and tracking pipelines
• Shipped AAA games or VFX
• AR/VR experience
• Basic scripting or programming experience, so you can automate the boring stuff
• Shader programming experience, so you can achieve a certain look down to the finer details
  

What´s in it for you?

Here at Ericsson, our culture is built on over a century of courageous decisions. With us, you will no longer be dreaming of what the future holds – you will be redefining it. You won’t develop for the status quo, but will build what replaces it. Joining us is a way to move your career in any direction you want; with hundreds of career opportunities in locations all over the world, in a place where co-creation and collaboration are embedded into the walls. You will find yourself in a speak-up environment where empathy and humanness serve as cornerstones for how we work, and where work-life balance is a priority. Welcome to an inclusive, global company where your opportunity to make an impact is endless.

What happens once you apply?

To prepare yourself for next steps, please explore here: https://www.ericsson.com/en/careers/job-opportunities/hiring-process

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