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Niantic's AR Mapping team seeks a Computer Vision Software Engineer to build 3D world maps for their real-world Metaverse.  Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining production computer vision systems to enhance AR capabilities, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions, optimizing system complexity and time, writing high-performance code, and working with the research team to innovate in AR. The role involves working on solutions that will be used by millions.  The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree (or equivalent) in a related field and experience in production code (C++), computer vision, and machine learning.  In-office work is required two days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays).

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<div class="job__description body"><div><p>Niantic’s Augmented Reality (AR) Mapping team seeks a Computer Vision Software Engineer to help build the 3D world maps that are the foundation for Niantic’s real world Metaverse and push the frontiers of Computer Vision and Machine Learning.</p>
<p>We are building the VPS and visual maps that help develop AR experiences to “inspire people to explore the world together”.</p>
<p>We’re a highly collaborative and engaging team, working to help algorithms evolve from concept to production at scale, and this is your chance to join us in our journey to map the world. We are all passionate about innovation, so we’re looking for engineers who want to learn and ship products that will be used by millions of developers and users.</p>
<h3>Responsibilities</h3>
<ul>
<li>Design, develop and maintain production computer vision systems that are used to improve Niantic’s AR capabilities for the delight of our users.</li>
<li>Collaborate multi-functionally with products, operations and other engineering teams to ship state-of-the art computer vision solutions to enable new AR experiences.</li>
<li>Optimize complexity and time of solutions to make the best use of current technologies in cloud and/or mobile.</li>
<li>Write high performance code, debug solutions to complex problems that span systems, prioritize tasks effectively, and efficiently to meet agreed timelines.</li>
<li>Work with Niantic’s research team to invent, evaluate and help productionise solutions to push the boundaries of what can be done today in AR.</li>
<li>Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.</li>
<li>Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Thursday.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Qualifications</h3>
<ul>
<li>Master-level qualification in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li>
<li>Experience writing production code in C++.</li>
<li>Solid understanding of computer vision, machine learning or similar concepts.</li>
<li>Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Plus If…</h3>
<ul>
<li>PhD-level qualification in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li>
<li>Demonstrated ability developing algorithms for image processing, computer vision or similar endeavors.</li>
<li>Experience implementing, hardening or optimizing 3d gaussian splatting, dense depth computation, multi-view reconstruction or other problems in 3D computer vision.</li>
</ul>
<p>The total compensation package for this position includes a new hire offer base salary range of £87,300.00-£126,000.00 + bonus + equity + benefits.</p>
<p>Individual pay within this salary range is determined by work location and additional factors, including assessed job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can answer any questions about new hire total compensation during the hiring process. An overview of benefit offerings for your location can be found on the careers page.</p>
<h3><strong>Join the Niantic team!</strong></h3>
<p>Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.</p>
<p>We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.</p>
<p>Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.</p>
<p>We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zurich. #LI-HYBRID</p></div></div>

Treyarch is looking for an experienced, self-driven, highly imaginative, and versatile Principal Character Concept Artist to join our in-house team in Los Angeles or Vancouver. You will be responsible for driving the look and feel of exciting characters, outfits, weapons, and gear designs using your creativity, traditional and digital illustration skills, 3D, and generative AI tools. This role is ideal for someone bursting with ideas and that enjoys leading the creative vision of character designs and collaborating with multiple stakeholder groups. Responsibilities include brainstorming with stakeholders on imaginative innovative ideas for characters, weapons, and gear designs, researching and developing new exciting visual treatments using 2D, 3D, motion, and generative AI tools, reviewing the team’s character designs before they move into production and ensuring they meet our projects’ quality, consistency, attitude, and style standards, creating documentation that guides internal and external content character content creation, providing art direction and feedback to the team to push visuals further and problem solve, incorporating 3D problem solving into your character design process, including working with others’ models to modify, render, and composite them to communicate the best solutions, creating high quality concept art for characters – ranging from loose exploration sketches all the way to fully rendered designs, designing alternate variants of existing characters as well as creating new ones that span across multiple genres, using generative AI tools to enhance your production capabilities, working closely with art directors, artists, animators, and designers on the design and function of characters, confidently self-managing timelines, workloads, and regularly communicating with stakeholders and implementing their feedback.

Principal Character Concept Artist

<div class="jd-info au-target" data-ph-at-id="jobdescription-text" data-ph-id="ph-page-element-page5-ECT73v" au-target-id="66"><h2>Job Title:</h2>Principal Character Concept Artist - Treyarch (Los Angeles)<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><h2>Requisition ID:</h2>R024147<p style="text-align:inherit"></p><h2>Job Description:</h2><p>Treyarch is looking for an experienced, self-driven, highly imaginative, and versatile <b>Principal Character Concept Artist</b> to join our in-house team in Los Angeles or Vancouver. You will be responsible for driving the look and feel of exciting characters, outfits, weapons, and gear designs using your creativity, traditional and digital illustration skills, 3D, and generative AI tools. This role is ideal for someone bursting with ideas and that enjoys leading the creative vision of character designs and collaborating with multiple stakeholder groups.</p><h2><b>What you’ll do…</b></h2><ul><li>Brainstorm with stakeholders on imaginative innovative ideas for characters, weapons, and gear designs.</li><li>Research and develop new exciting visual treatments using 2D, 3D, motion, and generative AI tools.</li><li>Review the team’s character designs before they move into production and ensure they meet our projects’ quality, consistency, attitude, and style standards.</li><li>Create documentation that guides internal and external content character content creation.</li><li>Provide art direction and feedback to the team to push visuals further and problem solve.</li><li>Incorporate 3D problem solving into your character design process, including working with others’ models to modify, render, and composite them to communicate the best solutions.</li><li>Create high quality concept art for characters – ranging from loose exploration sketches all the way to fully rendered designs.</li><li>Design alternate variants of existing characters as well as creating new ones that span across multiple genres.</li><li>Use generative AI tools to enhance your production capabilities.</li><li>Work closely with art directors, artists, animators, and designers on the design and function of characters.</li><li>Confidently self-manage timelines, workloads, and regularly communicate with stakeholders and implement their feedback.</li></ul><h2><b>To succeed you should have…</b></h2><ul><li>7+ years of demonstrated experience in the games or film industry, designing characters, costumes, weapons, and gear for commercial titles.</li><li>Exceptional creativity in transforming business needs into compelling character designs and innovative concepts.</li><li>Advanced skills in digital photo manipulation, image clean-up, and compositing elements to create exciting visuals.</li><li>Experienced background in traditional art skills, understanding fundamentals like anatomy, proportion, scale, value, and color theory.</li><li>Advanced sketching abilities as well as rendering, graphic design, and iconography.</li><li>Extensive understanding of material surfaces and the ability to communicate them visually.</li><li>Excellent understanding of mechanical function and purpose.</li><li>Deeply knowledgeable in character costume and fashion design across various eras.</li><li>An understanding of the relevance of art to gameplay.</li><li>Mastery of Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop.</li><li>Experienced in using 3D applications to modify, pose, and render characters.</li><li>Work samples showing knowledge of generative AI tools like, Stable Diffusion, Vizcom, Dall-E, or equivalent.</li><li>An understanding of which art techniques to employ to deliver character art deliverables on time while communicating what is needed to the team, with an excellent attention to design, detail, form, and function.</li><li>Self-managing and able to identify and meet deadlines and goals.</li><li>Fast and organized at researching and reference gathering.</li><li>A collaborative and team player approach, being able to contribute ideas, take direction, and react to stakeholder feedback.</li><li>Ability to learn new tools quickly and effectively.</li><li>A robust online portfolio showcasing conceptual thinking, meticulous execution, and versatility in creating diverse character designs across multiple themes and styles.</li><li>Willingness to complete a test if requested.</li></ul><h2><b>We’d love it if you also have...</b></h2><ul><li>An understanding and familiarity with Treyarch lore, game history, Call of Duty, and design themes.</li><li>Expertise in designing weapons for FPS games.</li><li>A passion for video games, music, movies, graphic novels, and other elements of pop culture.</li><li>Knowledge in common 3D software such as Maya, Modo, 3ds, or sketch up to facilitate concept creation.</li><li>Knowledge of general military application, history, and authenticity.</li><li>Knowledge and passion for weapons and vehicles.</li></ul><p>We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision Blizzard, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.</p><p>The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.</p><h2><b>About Treyarch</b></h2><p>Founded in 1996, Treyarch is a videogame studio whose purpose is to create awesome games for the world to enjoy. With this purpose in mind, we crafted the award winning Call of Duty: Black Ops series and pioneered the fan favorite Zombies mode.</p><p>At Treyarch, we empower the team to be individually driven to innovate on our games, processes, and culture. How we do things is just as important as what we do.</p><p>Studio culture and development, we believe it’s a team effort and that collaboration and hearing one another is key. Every day we face the large and small challenges together and every voice matters.</p><p>These values guide us in our mission to create moments that matter. Both to the players and to us, the creators. In an era where triumphs and defeats are readily shared, seeing players engage with our creations gives us great pride. Come help us create that next moment.</p><p>We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.</p><p>We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to . General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.</p><p>To learn more about our studio, please visit us at , on Facebook at , and @treyarch on Twitter.</p><p>PS, we’ve also got some pretty amazing office perks and benefits, like 20 vacation days and 16 holidays, 10 weeks of family leave, free lunches and snacks at our office, comprehensive healthcare, and more! Check out all the details here for more information: </p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><b>Rewards</b></p><p>We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!&nbsp; Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:</p><ul><li>Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&amp;D insurance, disability insurance;</li><li>401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;</li><li>Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;</li><li>Mental health &amp; wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life &amp; disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;</li><li>If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.</li></ul><p></p><p>Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company.&nbsp; You can learn more by visiting .</p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p>In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $134,000.00 - $247,900.00 Annual. These values reflect the expected base pay range of new hires across all U.S. locations. Ultimately, your specific range and offer will be based on several factors, including relevant experience, performance, and work location. Your Talent Professional can share this role’s range details for your local geography during the hiring process. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.   While we strive to provide competitive offers to successful candidates, new hire compensation is negotiable.</div>