We are putting together a new team for a project that aims to speed up the development of exciting features for the students and teachers using Labster. We are looking for a 3D Character Artist to help us deliver high fidelity 3D assets for our nursing simulation software.
This is your chance to join an early stage project within a successful startup/ scaleup and shape the projects future. We are using Unity as the main game engine for our product and we are looking to rebuild our asset creation pipeline and asset lifecycle management to enable us to create an amazing experience for our users.
If youre passionate about working for a missiondriven organization and making a tangible difference in the world through education and healthcare innovation please read on and apply!
Responsibilities
- Design model and texture highquality productionready 3D character assets for medical simulation environments ensuring anatomical accuracy and visual clarity
- Rig and creating highquality animations for 3D characters that accurately represent behaviours in medical scenarios.
- Create realistic and stylized 3D scene objects such as medical equipment hospital environments and simulation props
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure models accurately represent medical scenarios tools and procedures
- Work closely with technical artists/animators and engineers to ensure assets are presented correctly in Unity.
- Optimize assets for performance on VR platforms without sacrificing visual fidelity
- Maintain a clean and organized asset library adhering to naming conventions and pipeline standards
- Stay current with industry best practices for realtime character and environmental asset creation.
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with engineering design and content teams to bring engaging and educational simulations to life
Competencies & Skills
- 3 years of experience creating 3D character and environment assets for realtime applications and games with strong understanding of PBR workflow.
- Strong modeling texturing and UV unwrapping skills using tools such as 3D Studio Max Blender and Character Creator 4
- Strong understanding of animation workflows
- A solid understanding of human anatomy and the ability to accurately model realistic characters and medical equipment
- Experience creating both organic (characters body parts) and hardsurface (medical equipment environments) assets
- Proficient in rigging and character animation
- Experience optimizing assets for performance on VR platforms
- Strong attention to detail and a passion for creating clean productionready assets
- Familiarity with Git or similar version control systems
Bonus skills
- Experience with medical visualization or simulations
- Experience with animation workflows using Unitys Animator system and thirdparty libraries (e.g. Animancer).
- Familiarity with Unitys Universal Render Pipeline (URP)
- Familiarity with Unity lighting system and optimisation strategies.
- Basic knowledge of C# scripting to assist with asset integration or tooling
- Experience working on VR projects
- Comfortable working with realworld medical data or imagery to inform asset creation
About us
Labsters mission is to captivate learners and dismantle barriers with immersive technology to improve lives.
Our immersive learning platforms for STEM education and nursing simulation allow students to engage in realworld scenarios safely and repeatedly building confidence and competence in their learning journey.
Labster was named one of the Worlds Top EdTech Companies of 2024 by TIME and Statista. And UbiSim our virtual reality (VR) nursing simulation product was recognized as a TIME Best Invention of 2024.
Labster is proud to be an equalopportunity employer.
Fuel Your Growth with Labster
Our immersive learning platforms for STEM education and nursing simulation allow students to engage in realworld scenarios safely and repeatedly building confidence and competence in their learning journey.
- Healthcare Benefits : We offer a comprehensive healthcare plan with toptier medical coverage so you can stay healthy and focus on what you do best.
- Flexible Time Off : Unlimited vacation paid company holidays and flexible leave options so youre always at your best.
- Family Benefits : Generous paid parental leave to support growing families and your smooth transition back to work.
- Mental Wellbeing: We take mental wellbeing seriously. We offer free iFeel Mental Health sessions to all employees.
- Growth Opportunities: Whether youre looking to sharpen your skills advance into leadership or explore new career paths we partner with you to help you thrive.
- Additional Benefits: Competitive compensation a freedom to choose policy plus other tailored local benefits. The chance to get involved with our Values in Action and LGBTQIA Employee Resource Groups promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Our commitment to all of you
Labster is committed to select the best available candidate for every open position regardless of sex sexual orientation race color religion marital status ethnic origin age disability or geographical location. At the same time we aim to provide all team members with the opportunity to develop long term careers appropriate to their abilities and ambitions. Labster is also committed to ensuring that recruitment procedures are fair objective impartial transparent and are applied consistently.