Hiring a Founding Tech Artist at a new 3D scanning startup in New York City

A little bit about us:

  • We are working with a new, portable 3D scanner to scan interiors of homes & offices with a high degree of precision. This role may appeal to someone who has developed for video games in the past who is now looking for a new challenge.
  • Two of the three founders are engineers. We will always be an engineering-first company.
  • We’re startup veterans; we have strong opinions about how to build a healthy company and have years of experience recognizing bad & silly decisions.
  • We only hire ethical people.
  • Some technologies we currently use include: Ruby, Rails, Python, Blender, ActionScript, Javascript, AWS, CouchDB, Meteor, Heroku, Git
  • We are backed by some of New York & Silicon Valley’s top angel investors and venture capital firms

Technical Artist
We are looking for an experienced technical artist to join our small team. The right candidate will be deeply technical, but also artistic, and should have a strong background in 3D environments. Our company is located in Manhattan, in a beautiful, light filled office in the west village. We offer a generous compensation package which includes equity, health & dental insurance.

Responsibilities

  • Create, distribute, and maintain custom scripts for our scanned 3D models.
  • Work with our engineers to develop tools and scripts that will help unsophisticated end users edit these models.
  • Create 3d models, UV and texture.
  • Create the shaders for our end consumer product.
  • Work with engineering & design to develop pipelines in support of our end user application

Skills
Proficient in 3D and animation tools including 3dsMax, Maya
Proficient in Photoshop.
Script writing including Maxscript and Javascript

Pluses
Proficient in UI design using COTS tools such as Adobe Flash

To Apply
Please contact us at dave@lofty.com (website in stealth mode) with a short description & a resume