Niantic Labs, creator of Ingress and Pokémon GO, seeks a Unity Technical Artist with creative and technical expertise to develop challenging Unity scenes. Niantic is a fast-moving, multi-disciplinary team of software developers and creative professionals based in San Francisco and Seattle. You will be responsible for working with Unity and other graphics tools to merge the virtual with the real world.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to help build features and solve creative problems
Help build rapid protypes of experimental features using Unity 3D or other mobile platform tools
Iterate on Unity 3D scene implementation to finalize product and other creative requirements
Help create performant graphics shaders for awesome visuals
Facilitate communication and asset pipeline between engineering and artist teams
Qualifications
Expert-level experience with Unity Game Engine
Expert in scripting with C# within the Unity environment
Knowledge of optimizing real-time 3D-graphics pipeline for mobile platforms
Solid artistic skills (drawing or digital painting) a plus
Experience collaborating within a multi-person game studio a plus
BS or MS degree in design, games-related or technical field is a plus
Please attach a portfolio link including sketches/drawing examples and resume.
Key Skills
Unity 3D, C#, Real-time VFX, Artistic skills
Join the Niantic team!
Niantic’s mission is to use emerging technology to create experiences in the real world. We build products that inspire outdoor exploration, exercise, and face-to-face social interaction.
Originally formed at Google in 2010, we became an independent company with a strong group of investors including Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, and Alsop Louie Partners. We build games that get people outside and exploring. We enable our players to have fun while visiting new places, learning about the world around them, and meeting new friends.
We launched Ingress, an immersive real-world mobile game played by millions of people in over 200 countries and territories, and downloaded over 20 million times. We also develop Pokémon GO, which has broken world records and been downloaded over 750 million times in its first year. We announced Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, our latest much-anticipated AR game.
We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who love what we do! We have offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Hamburg.
About Niantic inc.
Leaders in Augmented Reality
Niantic is building a state of the art augmented reality platform for current and future generations of AR hardware.
Our real-world gaming platform includes a massively scalable engine for shared state and user interactions already proven to support hundreds of millions of users and a client platform that sets the standard for mapping, security, and AR capabilities.
Niantic is hard at work solving challenges to realize the full potential of augmented reality using technologies such as machine learning and computer vision.
