VR/AR Asset Artist

Employer

Job Description

Three Space Lab (3SL) is an early-stage MIT Media Lab spin-off company working on mixed reality software solutions for team collaboration and learning. The current portfolio of projects is divided between these two areas, while sharing a common infrastructure across all of them. On the education side, we make tools and content for middle school, high school, and university-level learning, with an emphasis on STEM. Our approach is centered around interactive spatial visualization and simulation. On the team collaboration side, we are building a product that we plan to release in late 2021 or early 2022. Past company projects have focused on electricity and magnetism, crystal structures, 3D scanning, and tools for collaborative visual design.


We are math and physics geeks with an artsy side (dance, drawing, music), and we welcome people of any gender, race, ethnicity, color, ability, class, religion, culture, or nationality. We believe that working with people who have diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds enhances our ideas, enriches our lives as individuals and as a team, and is invaluable for understanding how we can best have a positive impact.


What we are looking for:

3SL is seeking a VR/AR asset artist to collaboratively envision and create sophisticated 3D assets and dynamic user interface elements across the company's projects. Candidates for this mid-level role should have experience with mixed reality design as well as a strong desire to expand their knowledge around VR and AR applications and development. The ideal candidate is self-motivated, curious, and enthusiastic about collaborating with a team of engineers, support staff, and clients. An interest in human learning and education is a definite plus. This is a remote position; great project management, communication, and documentation skills are must-haves.


Candidates should have excellent artistic and technical capabilities, including a thorough knowledge of 3D modeling, lighting, and graphics. The ability to maintain design consistency across a portfolio of related projects is essential. Candidates should also be enthusiastic about sharing their process and design rationale with other team members. (Candidates with management or executive-level leadership experience please see our Head of Design posting.)


Responsibilities:

  • Conception, design, and creation of sophisticated 3D assets for real-time rendering (including texturing, normal mapping, etc.)
  • Collaboration with the development team


Top Priority Attributes:

  • Bachelor's degree in art and/or design (or equivalent work experience)
  • Strong familiarity with industry-grade modeling tools such as Blender or Maya
  • Experience with sculpting and modeling 3D assets (especially for VR applications)
  • Skilled at communicating their design rationales, responding to and integrating feedback


Other Desired Skills/Experience:

  • Experience with UX design
  • Experience with prototyping and creation of interactive assets for VR applications
  • Shader design and development (HLSL, ShaderGraph, etc.)


We are open to a fully remote team model. Special places for us are Cambridge, MA and Berlin, Germany,

 

Benefits: Salary and benefits are competitive and include a profit-sharing program.

 

At Three Space lab, we don't just accept difference—we celebrate and support it. Not only because it's the right thing to do, but because we draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced, and how we think to make Three Space Lab thrive. Three Space Lab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected under applicable State or Federal laws and regulations.