Unreal Technical Artist

3 months ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Vaarst Full time

**Our love for the natural world drives us to innovate. Join Vaarst to work on technology that respects and supports the environment. Our actions and innovations play an active role in the energy transition making the world cleaner and greener.**

**Job Title**:Unreal Technical Artist

**Location**: Bristol, Hybrid 2+ Days per week in the office

**Salary**:£35,000 - £45,000

**About Vaarst**:
**Vaarst** focuses on making the world a cleaner, greener and safer place by deploying technology for good. We’re using techniques in artificial intelligence, autonomy, computer vision and marine robotics to create a difference in the world with underwater technology for our clients in offshore wind and the subsea industry.

Take a look at one of our products in action

SubSLAM X2 - Unlocking the Future of Marine Robotics - YouTube

Founded in 2021 by our sister company Rovco, we’ve announced funding of more than £20 million, been voted one of the most innovative and sustainable companies working towards net zero, and won awards for Best Use of AI and Best Technology Innovation.

Discover your place in a hybrid team of 100+ people that celebrates diversity knowing that every perspective is a valuable part of our success and that empowers you to achieve a fulfilling work-life balance.

**Job Title: Unreal Technical Artist**

We are seeking a passionate Technical Artist with experience in Unreal Engine to join our innovative team. Your role will involve developing industry-leading art assets for use in digital twins and robotic simulations to support the clean energy transition. You will be working alongside our Engineering, Machine Learning, and Product teams to help produce photo-realistic worlds for testing and development of autonomous underwater vehicles and training of advanced machine learning models.

Using tooling made by our Engineering team, you will help create rigged underwater vehicles for use in our simulation. Working with our clients you will be taking their CAD models of offshore assets and converting them for use in our digital twin representation of an offshore windfarm. Your responsibilities will include helping to define the art workflow across the various projects and working with contractors and stakeholders to deliver high-quality art as required.

We’ll welcome your ideas & input and support your development

In addition, this is an incredible opportunity to help further the transition to renewable energy.

**Objectives & Responsibilities**:
Vaarst is an exciting and dynamic environment meaning these are likely to change as we grow, your objectives and responsibilities will include:

- You will be helping to define the art pipelines from concept to production-ready assets.
- Using both scratch and shop-bought assets, you will be involved in the entire art cycle of modelling, texturing, and lighting of our 3D worlds.
- Working with Unreal Editor tools to produce and upload movie renders to our AI training framework.
- Using our Unreal-engine based systems, you will help in the creation of different representations of real-world underwater vehicles and environments for use in the simulation.
- You will be responsible for creating high-quality rigged meshes and setting up and defining the placement of various sensors and trusters on said mesh.

(we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap. You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role):

- At least 3 years of experience working with Unreal, including Blueprints, Materials, Lighting, Movie Sequencer and Niagara particle effects, or similar systems
- Portfolio demonstrating previous work from concept to delivery.
- (Preferable) Experience using the Unreal Engine water plugin.
- Understanding of camera settings and mimicking real-life cameras in Unreal.
- Strong foundations in Photoshop or equivalent image manipulation software.
- Proficiency with at least one digital content creation package (Blender (preferrably), Maya, 3DS Max, etc). Experience converting CAD models for use in-game art workflows.

**Grow together with Vaarst where you will learn and use the following**:

- Develop Shaders to be able create hyper-realistic renders.
- Develop a clear understanding of the rendering Pipelines, to be able to get the most out of the engine.
- Using Profiling tools and to be able to optimise content for users.
- Developing concept art in Unreal Engine

**Benefits**

**At Vaarst, we’re committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. Our hybrid-remote approach and state-of-the-art Bristol Office Hub provide a welcoming space designed to nurture your creativity, productivity and well-being.**

**In addition, you’ll get an extensive range of benefits so you can focus on doing your very best work**:

- Flexible, hybrid working so you can work when is best for you
- 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing 2 days per year up 35 days
- P

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