Senior 3D Technical Artist

About Us

Intelligent Haptronic Solutions Inc. (IHS) is a medical robotics start-up company that focuses on research and development of industry leading surgical training simulation system. IHS has a team of industry leading researchers and experienced engineers that strive for advancing Haptic, VR and AI technology for surgical training applications. IHS is in partnership with Shenzhen Zhichu Computer System Co., Ltd which is responsible for product manufacturing, marketing and sales. IHS is also in partnership with Vancouver General Hospital as well as multiple well-known teaching hospitals in China including the department of gastroenterology, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital which will provide clinical trial/evaluation platforms for product development.

Company Website: www.intelligent-haptronic-solutions.com

Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-haptronic-solutions/

Job Description

Are you excited about Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality and Haptic technology? You have a unique opportunity to join a team of industry-leading researchers and experienced engineers with diverse backgrounds in Haptics, VR, Robotics, AI, computer hardware and software to develop Haptic and XR-based surgical training simulation systems. These systems will be used by a vast number of hospitals, medical schools and surgical training institutes and to significantly improve the efficiency of surgical training.

Your responsibilities include but not limited to:

  • Work closely with the Art, Design and Software Engineering teams to construct and implement visual assets in Unity both in 3D and 2D
  • Develop 3D visual assets and special effects for human anatomy and surgical environment for IHS surgical training software
  • Create 3D assets for various applications such as automotive and gaming to facilitate IHS Haptic SDK development
  • Retopology and Texturing for 3D assets
  • Enforce optimal performance and efficiency of every aspect of the 3D assets within the designated scene
  • Work effectively to tackle any art-related bugs
  • Develop and maintain tools for the art pipeline
  • Create, maintain, and communicate technical art guidelines and implementation techniques with other team members
  • Maintain clean, optimized project, periodically auditing assets, hierarchies and workflows
  • Profile builds and provide and implement solutions to address performance related issues

Requirements

  • Proven experience in 3D technical art development in multiple published/shipped products
  • Strong 3D art skills and good eye for layout design
  • 5+ years of experience with Unity with a deep understanding of scenes, prefabs and animation controller setup
  • Extensive experience in Maya or equivalent software
  • Extensive experience in Substance Painter or equivalent software
  • Technical Art skills such as familiarity with Shaders, optimizing 3D and 2D assets for memory, performance and general bug fixing considerations
  • Familiarity with 3D computer graphics concepts such as Vertices, UV textures
  • Familiarity with modeling soft object
  • Familiarity with Realistic Rendering

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with C#
  • Familiarity with soft bodies/deformable 3D objects
  • Familiarity with Human form and anatomy

Job Types:

  • Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

  • Casual dress
  • Company events
  • Dental care
  • Disability insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Extended health care
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision care
  • Wellness program

Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus pay

Experience:

  • Unity: 5 years (preferred)
  • 3D modeling: 5 years (preferred)
  • 3D texturing: 5 years (preferred)

Language:

  • English and Chinese (preferred)

Work Location:

  • In person

How to apply

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to intelligenthaptronicsolutions@gmail.com with the position as the subject line.

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