Senior Environment Artist, Armature

Oculus Studios and Armature are searching for a Senior Environment Artist that has a superior artistic eye, elevated technical abilities, and experience creating highly polished and beautiful worlds with VR/MR in mind. You will be working with the Art Director, Art Leads, Tech, and Design to establish a wide variety of art assets all the way from environments to props to 3D UI elements!You’ll bring thrilling, immersive experiences to VR/MR by creating environments, props, and related storytelling elements, while also working with technical teams to ensure the best performance on target hardware. As a team collaborator, you’ll also help mentor other artists, and identify art pipeline, workflow, and process improvements that the team can adopt to make the best possible product under the best possible environment.

Senior Environment Artist, Armature Responsibilities:

• Creating immersive VR environments in Unreal Engine 5
• Environment Props and asset creation using Maya, Painter, and other related art tools
• Establish, own, and document new workflows that may come up
• Interface with Design and Tech to ensure props and levels are on spec
• Willingness to mentor other artists of various experience levels to bring up the skills of all art team as a whole

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience and evidence of completing multiple game titles
• Proficiency within Unreal Engine, Maya, Substance Painter, and Photoshop
• Affinity for hard surface and environment layout and prop modeling
• Experience communicating and collaborating with multidisciplinary team members
• Experience with visual design aesthetic and can analyze and critique art in a productive manner

Preferred Qualifications:

• Examples of working with outsourced, asset libraries, or other artist's work
• Experience tiling materials within Substance Designer
• Experience with non-environment props such as 3D UI elements and materials
• Experience with static and dynamic lights within Unreal Engine
• Interest in new art techniques and can comfortably explore new art pipelines
• Experience working with and without direct reference or concept
• Experience launching a VR game title

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.