Software Engineer

Description:

• Client is creating magical mixed-reality experiences for hundreds of millions of users, using computer vision, neural networks, graphics, and computational photography to help them reduce the “imagination gap”. Kreative, launched in 2022, is expanding to provide best in-class tools for customers and co-workers to visualize their home design ideas with helpful and joyful 3D experiences.
• We have an opening for a Senior Graphics Engineer to join the Home Imagination Platform (HIP) Team at client, located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This team will collaborate directly with the R&D team at Geomatical Labs (an client company based in the USA), and be part of influential and cutting-edge 3D and AI technology development on a global, multi-million user scale.

Responsibilities :

• Develop highly scalable 3D baking & conditioning pipelines for 1,000,000+ 3D assets at various levels of detail, using custom code & the Simplygon optimization toolkit.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to make the existing pipeline more efficient, and tooling to support internal workflows.
• Develop novel processing algorithms to extract and insert metadata to support custom behaviors in the web and mobile applications.

Requirements :

• Desired knowledge, experience, competence, skills etc.
• Experience with 3D asset conditioning pipelines software (e.g. Simplygon, RapidCompact)
• Thorough understanding of texture-mapped materials, u-v mapping, atlas-ing, baking, ambient occlusion.
• Highly-productive Python systems programming skills, in a cloud environment.
• Experience using Blender modeling & scripting (or similar 3D modeling packages)
• BONUS: Experience with standardized 3D formats like GLTF, USDz, MaterialX.
• BONUS: Experience with Django full-stack development.