Technical Artist

Khora is an award-winning Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality production studio, creating cutting-edge content within multiple application areas. We are 32 full-time employees, and over the last 8 years, we have produced more than 450 VR/AR applications and hosted more than 1200 workshops and events. We are exploring the value potential of VR and AR through meaningful collaborations and partnerships. We work within multiple industries, with a deep understanding of the technologies and of how and why businesses and institutions should work within these emerging mediums.

We are seeking a new colleague for the position as a Technical Artist. You will be responsible for building applications for VR and AR on mobile, PC, and MAC, based primarily on the Unity framework, but encompassing a wide array of 3D tools and pipelines. Your primary responsibilities will be translating project ideas, concepts, and requirements into a functional and engaging experiences. A large part of this role is working in between our 3D artists and developers, there is naturally a lot of overlap with this work, but this position is designed to be the glue between these 2 roles. An artistic eye is a must, with a deep technical understanding of current and emerging 3D toolsets. A commitment to collaborative, dynamic problem solving, and an outgoing approach are essential.

Responsibilities

• Work with Unity scene management, lighting, shader graph and VFX graph.

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code in C#

• Write shader code and create complex particle systems and simulations

• Working closely with 3D artists and project managers to establish an effective pipeline and have a well-optimized application.

• Working within Adobe After Effects and similar comping tools

• Ensure the best possible performance, quality and responsiveness of applications.

• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to address and mitigate these problems.

• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.

Skills

• Excellent knowledge of Unity

• Excellent knowledge of C#

• Excellent knowledge of game physics and VFX graph

• Excellent knowledge of Shader Graph

• Experience with 3D modeling, animation and texturing

• Experience with the Adobe Creative Suite

• Experience with Unreal Engine and Blueprints

• Experience with mobile, PC and Mac development

• Ability to constantly learn and stay in touch with evolving VR and AR standards and development technologies

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming

• Strong understanding of Unity shaders, Unity Universal Render Pipeline and Unity High Definition Pipeline

• Knack for writing clean, readable, and easily maintainable code

• Excellent knowledge of code versioning tools such as GIT

Plusses if you

• Have prior experience with VR and AR

• 3 plus years of working experience

• Have experience with Xcode

• Have experience with Spark AR

• Hold a master’s degree in Computer Science or similar

Please note that we will only consider applicants with residency in Denmark

Send an application through the Hub and please include Cover Letter, CV and portfolio (if available). We will be conducting interviews as we receive the applications and will carry on with the interviews until we have found a good fit.