<p>Founded in 1988, Visual Concepts is the developer behind the 2K Sports games and the dominating success of the NBA 2K franchise. The Visual Concepts team is devoted and ambitious, never content to stop searching for new ways to improve the gaming experience and to develop advanced techniques and methods of producing cutting edge entertainment. It is through this determination and love of both sports and video games that Visual Concepts has fostered NBA 2K from its creation in 2000 to present day, ensuring each annual release is innovative and improved. The Visual Concepts attitude and work ethic shines through in the games and earns the company awards and accolades year after year.</p>

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Niantic's AR Mapping team seeks a Computer Vision Software Engineer to build 3D world maps for their real-world Metaverse.  Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining production computer vision systems to enhance AR capabilities, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions, optimizing system complexity and time, writing high-performance code, and working with the research team to innovate in AR. The role involves working on solutions that will be used by millions.  The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree (or equivalent) in a related field and experience in production code (C++), computer vision, and machine learning.  In-office work is required two days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays).

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<div class="job__description body"><div><p>Niantic’s Augmented Reality (AR) Mapping team seeks a Computer Vision Software Engineer to help build the 3D world maps that are the foundation for Niantic’s real world Metaverse and push the frontiers of Computer Vision and Machine Learning.</p>
<p>We are building the VPS and visual maps that help develop AR experiences to “inspire people to explore the world together”.</p>
<p>We’re a highly collaborative and engaging team, working to help algorithms evolve from concept to production at scale, and this is your chance to join us in our journey to map the world. We are all passionate about innovation, so we’re looking for engineers who want to learn and ship products that will be used by millions of developers and users.</p>
<h3>Responsibilities</h3>
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<li>Design, develop and maintain production computer vision systems that are used to improve Niantic’s AR capabilities for the delight of our users.</li>
<li>Collaborate multi-functionally with products, operations and other engineering teams to ship state-of-the art computer vision solutions to enable new AR experiences.</li>
<li>Optimize complexity and time of solutions to make the best use of current technologies in cloud and/or mobile.</li>
<li>Write high performance code, debug solutions to complex problems that span systems, prioritize tasks effectively, and efficiently to meet agreed timelines.</li>
<li>Work with Niantic’s research team to invent, evaluate and help productionise solutions to push the boundaries of what can be done today in AR.</li>
<li>Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.</li>
<li>Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Thursday.</li>
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<h3>Qualifications</h3>
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<li>Master-level qualification in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li>
<li>Experience writing production code in C++.</li>
<li>Solid understanding of computer vision, machine learning or similar concepts.</li>
<li>Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.</li>
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<h3>Plus If…</h3>
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<li>PhD-level qualification in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li>
<li>Demonstrated ability developing algorithms for image processing, computer vision or similar endeavors.</li>
<li>Experience implementing, hardening or optimizing 3d gaussian splatting, dense depth computation, multi-view reconstruction or other problems in 3D computer vision.</li>
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<p>The total compensation package for this position includes a new hire offer base salary range of £87,300.00-£126,000.00 + bonus + equity + benefits.</p>
<p>Individual pay within this salary range is determined by work location and additional factors, including assessed job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can answer any questions about new hire total compensation during the hiring process. An overview of benefit offerings for your location can be found on the careers page.</p>
<h3><strong>Join the Niantic team!</strong></h3>
<p>Niantic's global-scale augmented reality platform and digital map powers spatial computing experiences in the real world. Incubated out of the Maps team at Google, Niantic first created Ingress and then Pokémon GO, a cultural phenomenon and hit game played by tens of millions of people each month. Niantic’s Lightship platform, which powers Pokémon GO, also supports the company's other games including Pikmin Bloom, Peridot and Monster Hunter Now. Developers use Niantic’s platform to build their own AR applications and experiences, either with the Lightship Platform or directly through the web with 8th Wall.</p>
<p>We believe that cultivating a workplace where our people are supported and included is essential to creating great products our community will love. Our mission emphasizes seeking and hiring diverse voices, including those who are traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, and we consider this to be one of the most important values we hold close.</p>
<p>Niantic is a hybrid first company. We believe that in person interaction and collaboration fosters creativity, a sense of community, and is critical to our future success as a company. Our hybrid work schedules allow for a mix of remote and in-office work.</p>
<p>We're a hard-working, fun, and exciting group who value intellectual curiosity and a passion for problem-solving! We have growing offices located in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Bellevue, Kansas, London, Tokyo, Hamburg, Hyderabad, and Zurich. #LI-HYBRID</p></div></div>

As an Environment Artist at Visual Concepts Budapest, you will collaborate with artists and team members to craft beautiful and performant environments and arenas for the next iteration of the NBA 2K franchise. Your responsibilities include modeling, texturing, set dressing, and ensuring asset optimization. You will work closely with the art lead, art producer, and the environment team to bring white-boxed spaces to life with visual storytelling. You will be expected to adhere to established visual design principles while pushing the boundaries of what is possible. You will also collaborate with other artists and departments throughout the production process.

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    <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">At Visual Concepts, we believe great games are made by diverse and empowered teams with a shared passion for play. As one of the world’s top game development studios, we have shipped over 100 multi-sku titles to critical acclaim and commercial success. Our teams are independent and entrepreneurial. Our studios in Novato, Foothill Ranch, Irvine, Budapest, Shanghai, Austin, Boise, Seoul, and Parksville, Canada are committed to artistry and technical innovation, offering top candidates the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.</p>
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<p>Our Budapest studio is seeking an Environment Artist to join our development efforts on the next iteration of the award-winning NBA 2K franchise! Within this role, you will partner with artists and team members to build beautiful yet performant environments and arenas through modeling, texturing, and set dressing.</p>
<p>No sports knowledge is required, just a positive individual who can craft incredible environments to deliver clean assemblies with your co-developer programmers. You will be amongst a graphic design centric Environment team, where we will work to support you, and other environment artists.</p>
<p>The Environment Art group is a people focused diverse art team where we put effort where it pays off the most, pick up our teammates when we encounter headwinds in our lives, and pride ourselves in working effectively without sacrificing mental health. We prize the happiness that comes from helping the team do our best work and take credit as a team. Afterwards we blow off some steam and play games together. Give us a chance to meet you so we can tell you more!</p>
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<h2>What You Will Do:</h2>
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<li>Work with the art lead, art producer, and the environment team at large to create and populate environmental play spaces, pieces, and in-game cinematics</li>
<li>Bring white-boxed spaces to life with visual storytelling, without detracting from gameplay</li>
<li>Adhere to visual tenants of an established visual design, but push the boundaries of what is possible or expected</li>
<li>Ensure assets are fully optimized and performant while minimizing impact on artistic integrity</li>
<li>Proactively seek feedback to ensure accuracy and quality standards are met</li>
<li>Collaborate with other artists and departments throughout the production process</li>
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<h2><strong>Who Will Be A Great Fit:</strong></h2>
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<li>Excellent English communication verbal and written skills, especially with a remote team. Be an excellent written communicator on messaging and coworking systems like Slack, Figma, Miro, etc.</li>
<li>Minimum 3 years experience in a digital art content creation pipeline</li>
<li>Have a solid sense of color theory, composition, typography with current design trends.</li>
<li>Curiosity to learn and assemble your work with our powerful proprietary game engine tools.</li>
<li>Interface with design and engineering to implement final art into the game engine.</li>
<li>Comfortable working in Maya and Adobe Suite.</li>
<li>Be unyielding on naming conventions and understand the importance of them</li>
<li>Have experience working with instanced art asset pipelines</li>
<li>Learn and work predominantly in our proprietary assembly tool</li>
<li>Know how to offer and take constructive criticism. Ability to take direction well.</li>
<li>A strong work ethic is important – managing your own time, you pride yourself in having capacity to work autonomously.</li>
<li>Able to diagnose and solve problems quickly and independently</li>
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<p>Along with your application, please submit a portfolio of professional or personal work samples, demonstrating successful understanding and application of industry standard practices</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">To learn more about Visual Concepts and our studio locations, check out our website at <a href="http://www.vcentertainment.com">www.vcentertainment.com</a></p>

    

    
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