Senior Material Artist

3 Months ago • 3 Years +

About the job

SummaryBy Outscal

Senior Material Artist with game development experience to create photo-realistic environments for a VC-backed startup. Must have PBR based texturing, Unreal Engine, and material pipeline knowledge.

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. In 2024, we raised a $53M Series B fundraising round with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

About the Job:

We are looking for talented Material Artists with game development experience to join our architecture visualization team and help create high quality environment art assets and scenes. Candidates should have an exceptional understanding of form, shape, structure, color, detail, and silhouette in regard to modeling and texturing.

Higharc is fully remote; this role can sit anywhere in the continental US.

*Candidates must submit an online portfolio, and may require an art test*

Responsibilities:

  • Create and refine detailed photo-realistic and representational materials that are visually and technically industry leading
  • Create benchmark art assets and best practices guides
  • Ensure that material assets meet the performance and memory requirements
  • Sculpt and paint textures required for rendering physically based game interactive environments
  • UV layout for tiling and 0-1 mapped textures
  • Contribute to improvement of environment art pipelines and asset quality

Requirements:

  • 3+ years professional experience creating high quality, game ready environment assets
  • Have shipped at least 1 major game title using level creation tools like Unreal Editor/Engine
  • Can demonstrate an incredible portfolio with the best examples of realistic materials and textures
  • Expert knowledge of PBR based realistic texture/material pipelines and toolsets (including Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter and Designer)
  • Solid understanding of procedural texturing techniques and HDR pipelines
  • Able to work independently to a high level of quality solving visual and technical challenges
  • Self-driven with strong communication skills and are comfortable working in an environment of honest feedback and iteration
  • Detail focused with an eye toward accuracy and consistency with the ability to build accurate material assets from physical samples or reference images
  • Experienced managing texture and shader efficiency
  • Proficient in UV layout and lightmap authoring and editing
  • A passion for interior and architectural design

Higharc has been remote-first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so that you do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity in a fast-growing, well-funded company. Personal healthiness is an important value for us - we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with unlimited PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits like short and long-term disability plans and a 401k. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to help you create the ideal home-office.

Learn more about our product and hear from our employees on our YouTube page.

About The Company

Higharc's Homebuilding Cloud gives your homebuilding team the tools they need to design, estimate, sell, and build. Say goodbye to disconnected teams, outdated software, and repetitive manual work. Go to market faster than ever with one connected platform to design, estimate, sell, and build new homes and communities buyers love. Higharc is VC-backed and is led by a founding team that has launched products for Autodesk, EA, Nike, and Apple. We’re looking for world-class engineers and designers. See our open jobs: https://www.higharc.com/careers

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