Senior Material Artist | Higharc | Remote (United States)

<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">About the Job:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Higharc is fully remote; this role can sit anywhere in the continental US.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">*Candidates must submit an online portfolio, and may require an art test*</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Responsibilities</strong>:</p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Create and refine detailed photo-realistic and representational materials that are visually and technically industry leading</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Create benchmark art assets and best practices guides</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ensure that material assets meet the performance and memory requirements</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Sculpt and paint textures required for rendering physically based game interactive environments</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">UV layout for tiling and 0-1 mapped textures</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Contribute to improvement of environment art pipelines and asset quality</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Requirements:</strong></p>
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<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">3+ years professional experience creating high quality, game ready environment assets</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Have shipped at least 1 major game title using level creation tools like Unreal Editor/Engine</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Can demonstrate an incredible portfolio with the best examples of realistic materials and textures</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Expert knowledge of PBR based realistic texture/material pipelines and toolsets (including Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter and Designer)</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Solid understanding of procedural texturing techniques and HDR pipelines</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Able to work independently to a high level of quality solving visual and technical challenges</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Self-driven with strong communication skills and are comfortable working in an environment of honest feedback and iteration</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Detail focused with an eye toward accuracy and consistency with the ability to build accurate material assets from physical samples or reference images</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experienced managing texture and shader efficiency</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Proficient in UV layout and lightmap authoring and editing</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">A passion for interior and architectural design</span></li>
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<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">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 &#8211; we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with unlimited PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave. You&#8217;ll also have access to other big-company benefits like short and long-term disability plans and a 401k. Haven&#8217;t worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to help you create the ideal home-office.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Learn</strong> <strong class=" font-semibold">more</strong> about our product and hear from our employees on our <a href="youtube.com/@higharc19" target="_blank" class="break-all font-medium underline hover:opacity-75" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube page</a>.</p>