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The Environment Prop Lead at Infinity Ward oversees the creation and quality standards of environment models.  Responsibilities include mentoring artists, prioritizing tasks, improving workflows, collaborating with other studios, and ensuring assets meet technical and artistic requirements for consoles and mobile.  The role requires experience in creating realistic props for FPS games, proficiency in various 3D software (Substance Designer, Painter, Photoshop, ZBrush, Maya/Max, Blender), and a strong understanding of PBR.  The ideal candidate will lead by example, guide artists, utilize photogrammetry, and maintain quality across all environment props.

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<div class="jd-info au-target" data-ph-at-id="jobdescription-text" data-ph-id="ph-page-element-page5-B4i438" au-target-id="134"><h2>Job Title:</h2>Environment Prop Lead - Infinity Ward<h2>Requisition ID:</h2>R024524<h2>Job Description:</h2>Environment Prop Lead Your MissionAs part of the leadership team at Infinity Ward, the Environment Prop Lead oversees the creation and standards of the project’s environment models. You’ll join a team of leaders focusing on empowering our global team of artists and help make our maps and environments come alive through realism and storytelling.We’re seeking an experienced artist who knows the ins and outs of creating believable and interesting models, within the technical and artistic constraints of consoles and mobile. You should be able to educate artists and describe why or how an asset can look better or be more performant. As a mentor you’re proactively finding solutions to improve pipelines and workflows and deliver clear and constructive feedback to both internal and external artists with confidence. Collaborating comes natural to you, guiding others to be successful in their task.Being an ambassador for environmental prop art, you’ll represent the Infinity Ward Studio within the franchise working with level artists, photogrammetry experts, leads and Directors within our and other Call of Duty studios. Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:<ul><li>Responsible for maintaining quality across all environment props made for the project.</li><li>Maintain and mentor artists on established franchise workflows and best practices.</li><li>Prioritize and assign tasks and initiatives to the team to&nbsp;ensure&nbsp;the best&nbsp;possible&nbsp;results, while aligning with Directors, Production and OS managers.</li><li>Research and incorporate latest techniques and industry standards.</li><li>Work closely with Tools, Engine, and&nbsp;Tech&nbsp;art&nbsp;counterparts&nbsp;to develop new workflows or improve upon existing tools and technologies&nbsp;to&nbsp;streamline&nbsp;team&nbsp;efficiency.&nbsp;</li><li>Create documentation of processes for others to follow as needed.&nbsp;</li><li>Provide feedback to both internal and external artists regarding quality and technical execution.&nbsp;</li></ul>Player ProfileExperience<ul><li>4+ years of industry experience creating realistic props for 1st person (FPS) games as a Sr. Artist or in an Art Leadership position.</li><li>Ability to lead by example, creating or guiding artists to create benchmark quality assets.</li><li>Experience working with photogrammetry to add realistic details to props.</li><li>Advanced skill in software:&nbsp;Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Adobe Photoshop and ZBrush, Blender or similar software.</li><li>Strong knowledge of a 3D modeling software (Maya, Max, etc.)</li><li>Unmatched understanding of Physically Based Rendering&nbsp;(PBR) practices.</li></ul>Key Attributes<ul><li>Takes direction well and can confidently give clear concise direction.</li><li>Willingness to improve and learn new skills.</li><li>Able to work under pressure and meet production deadlines.</li></ul>Your PlatformFounded in 2002, Infinity Ward is the original studio behind the&nbsp;Call of Duty®&nbsp;franchise. The titles developed by Infinity Ward have won more than 200 "Game of the Year" awards and 100 "Editor's Choice" awards, among many other industry accolades. Some of our previous titles include:&nbsp;Call of Duty®: Ghosts,&nbsp;Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare&nbsp;and most recently,&nbsp;Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare II.A critically acclaimed studio, Infinity Ward is proud to have one of the most hardworking and versatile development teams in the industry.&nbsp; We love to have as much fun as the games we create, and it shows in our relaxed, yet diligent, workplace environment. &nbsp;We believe that making the best games relies on having the best people, so we like to look after ours. We enjoy having fun with top-notch events that everyone gets involved with.Infinity Ward is wholly owned by Activision. To learn more about our studio, please visit us at&nbsp;, on Facebook at&nbsp;, and&nbsp;&nbsp;on X.Our WorldAt Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We’re driven by our mission to deliver unrivaled gaming experiences for the world to enjoy, together. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Crash Bandicoot™, Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™, and Guitar Hero®. As a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and products, our “press start” is simple: delight hundreds of millions of players around the world with innovative, fun, thrilling, and engaging entertainment experiences.We’re not just looking back at our decades-long legacy; we’re forging ahead to keep advancing gameplay with some of the most popular titles and sophisticated technology in the world. We have bold ambitions to create the most inclusive company as we know our success comes from the passionate, creative, and diverse teams within our organization.&nbsp;We’re in the business of delivering fun and unforgettable entertainment for our player community to enjoy. And our future opportunities have never been greater — this could be your opportunity to level up.&nbsp; &nbsp;Ready to Activate Your Future?&nbsp;</div>

As a Lead Full-Stack Engineer at Hedra, you'll design and build frontend and backend services for video foundation models. You'll work with emerging web standards and frameworks like NextJS, React, Redux, and Typescript. Strong experience with Javascript, React, NextJS, and Typescript is essential.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

<div class="_descriptionText_4fqrp_201"><h2>About Hedra:</h2>Hedra is a pioneering video foundation model company founded by former Stanford PhDs and backed by top investors at Index, A16Z, and Abstract Ventures. We're building a full-stack creation studio capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.We raised 10 million dollars in our seed round to revolutionize content creation. Our flagship product, the Character foundation model, launched in late June and garnered <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2024/08/01/hedra-gen-ai-video-launches-with-10-million-in-seed-funding/">national attention</a>, landing us on the top of Reddit (multiple times!) and Twitter. In early October we released <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/hedra_labs/status/1841875930299425131">Character-2</a>, which has already produced highly creative and viral <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reidhoffman_twenty-years-ago-i-was-about-to-pitch-linkedin-activity-7247686669150117888--ang">content</a>. Note: At Hedra, we’re a team of hard-working, passionate individuals seeking to fundamentally change content and build a generational company together. You should have start-up experience and be a self-starter that is driven to build impactful products that change the status quo. You must be willing to work in-person in either NYC or SF.<h2>Summary:</h2>As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the frontend and backend services that power our transformative products. You will work with emerging web standards to build web-based video and audio creation / editing tools, utilizing Webcodecs, web-assembly, and FFMPEG. You will also work with frameworks/languages such as NextJS, React, Redux, Mobx, Typescript, and Javascript, and dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH.You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our Kubernetes infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. We’re looking for full-time hires for our New York or San Francisco offices.<h2>Must-Have Experience:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>5+ years of professional experience with Javascript, React, NextJS, and Typescript.</li><li>Experience working closely with design and product to set and deliver engineering initiatives and projects.</li><li>A product-focused engineer who is passionate about the user experience and empowering creatives.</li><li>Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV.</li><li>Startup Experience is a must — we work hard and build quickly. Ideal candidates should be passionate with an always-on attitude that drives them to live and breathe the product (not a “punch the clock” disposition).</li></ul><h2>Nice-To-Have Experience:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Experience developing scalable services using Python or Golang.</li><li>Familiarity with authentication / authorization such as oauth2 and OIDC</li><li>Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)</li><li>Experience writing unit and integration tests, working with CI/CD, and writing functional-tests using tools such as Playwright.</li><li>Strong familiarity with frameworks / standards / concepts such as WASM, websockets, IndexedDB, promises, generators, and coroutines.</li><li>Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS.</li><li>Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka.</li><li>Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems.</li><li>Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware.</li></ul><h2>Personality:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Self-motivated and independent — able to set accurate timelines for development and deliver on them. Have an opinion and the experience to backup that opinion.</li><li>Low ego, high patience, strong communication skills.</li><li>Understand operational costs and overhead short and long term.</li><li>Mission-driven — we are building something fundamentally disruptive and this reflects deeply in our company DNA.</li><li>And most importantly, treat Hedra as your own and help shape the vision accordingly</li></ul><h2>Benefits:</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Competitive compensation and equity.</li><li>401k.</li><li>Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental).</li><li>Gym access.</li></ul><h2>About the Founders:</h2>Michael Lingelbach (CEO) - Before taking a leave of absence to start Hedra, Michael was a PhD student at Stanford jointly advised by Jiajun Wu and Fei-Fei Li. Michael has published in top computer science conferences such as ICRA and CoRL, with a focus on building large-scale simulation platforms for computer vision and robotics. He has also made notable contributions to several open source projects (iGibson, OmniGibson). He’s a passionate cinephile, former thespian, and huge fan of Denis Villeneuve.Alex Bergman (Chief Scientist) - Alex recently received his PhD from Stanford working with Gordon Wetzstein. Alex has made significant contributions to neural rendering research, resulting in publications at top machine learning and computer vision conferences such as NeurIPS and ICCV. He is especially interested in packaging the benefits of neural rendering technology in tools which are intuitive to use for creatives. Outside of work, Alex enjoys traveling, movies, and spending time outdoors.Compensation Range: $170K - $225K</div>