Arcturus is seeking multiple Technical Artists to join its team of engineers and artists as expert users of HoloSuite, Arcturus’ cutting edge, volumetric video edition suite. Our Technical Artists play a crucial role in developing new workflow solutions--spanning from R&D, through to implementation--for our software and volumetric video content creators. Successful candidates will be joining a team of talented engineers and technicians creating the media of the future, backed by a stellar business and operations team.

We’re seeking someone with exceptional 3D skills, backed by strong interest in working with volumetric video. This is a career position with opportunities to focus towards support, training, product, demo production or sales technician as the company grows.

Job Summary Duties and Responsibilities

• Become an expert user of HoloSuite’s workflows in HoloEdit, Maya, Mari, Unreal, and Unity

• Analyze, evaluate, design, and develop workflows for editing volumetric video using Arcturus’ post-production editing tool, HoloSuite

• Provide leadership and education for new technical solutions and features implemented in HoloSuite, both internally and with HoloSuite users

• Work collaboratively with Arcturus’ engineering, R&D, and art teams to improve UX for HoloSuite users

• Lead and report on R&D work for experimental workflows

• Create marketing and demo content to be shown online and in-person at industry events

Skills

• Post-secondary education in a relevant visual art or technical field, such as 3D arts, animation, programming, or a portfolio demonstrating professional industry experience

• Proficiency using coding languages like Python, C#, C++, or visual scripting systems like Blueprint (Unreal)

• Solid understanding of optimizing scenes, resolving bugs, and improving UI elements in Unity and Unreal game engines

• Experience with building rigs and capable of maintaining a high level of visual and technical quality of skeletal data

• 3 - 5 years experience with high 3D asset pipelines and digital content tools like Maya, Houdini, Blender, Mari, Unity, Adobe Photoshop and Premiere, and Unreal

• Possess expert understanding of 3D assets, materials, texture baking, and lighting

• Ability to work with 3D assets and photogrammetry data for high-quality visual results

Special consideration given to those with understanding of

• Understanding of VFX production pipelines

• Immersive media (i.e. VR, AR)

• Capture and scanning:  6DOF vs 3DOF, photogrammetry

• Post: editing, composing, rotoscoping, matchmoving, matte and touchup painting

• IT: command line, render farms, cloud computing, computer networks, storage & data transfer, basic scripting

• Communications: project management, tracking, scheduling, bug reporting