Senior 3D Generalist, Product Visualization (Contract)

Skydio busca un Senior 3D Generalist para unirse al equipo de Brand Creative en un contrato de tiempo completo de tres meses. El rol apoya el desarrollo de imágenes de producto, ilustraciones, animaciones y activos 3D interactivos para la conferencia anual de usuarios y otras iniciativas de lanzamiento de producto. Trabajarás en estrecha colaboración con diseñadores, animadores, product marketers e ingenieros, tomando proyectos desde el CAD de producto hasta entregables visuales finales pulidos. Es un rol de producción práctico que requiere limpiar geometría compleja, construir materiales físicamente precisos, iluminar escenas fotorrealistas, animar características del producto y optimizar activos para experiencias web en tiempo real.

Responsibilities

• Create highly photorealistic product renderings, illustrations, and animations for keynote presentations, product launches, marketing campaigns, web experiences, decks, manuals, and other brand communications.
• Work from engineering and industrial-design CAD models to create production-ready visualization assets in Blender.
• Prepare complex CAD-derived geometry through tessellation, topology cleanup, normal correction, mesh organization, material separation, UV creation, and scene optimization.
• Preserve the accuracy, construction, proportions, materials, and fit and finish of Skydio hardware throughout the visualization process.
• Build realistic, physically based materials using Blender and Adobe Substance 3D Painter.
• Create studio-quality lighting that accurately communicates product form, surface finish, scale, and industrial-design details.
• Produce both clean studio imagery and environmental or conceptual scenes showing Skydio products in use.
• Create product animations that demonstrate assembly, operation, movement, workflows, features, and product interactions.
• Composite and finish rendered imagery primarily in Adobe Photoshop, with occasional motion graphics and compositing work in Adobe After Effects.
• Adapt product assets for multiple output formats, resolutions, aspect ratios, and campaign needs.
• Prepare optimized real-time 3D assets for interactive product viewers, web experiences, and augmented-reality applications.
• Export and validate assets in formats such as glTF and GLB for implementation in three.js and related browser-based experiences.
• Optimize real-time assets through efficient topology, UV layouts, texture atlases, baked maps, level-of-detail strategies, texture compression, and thoughtful polygon and material budgets.
• Maintain organized scenes, materials, textures, naming conventions, and file structures that can be shared and reused across the broader creative team.
• Collaborate closely with creative leadership, incorporate feedback quickly, and deliver polished work on compressed production timelines.

Requirements

• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional photorealistic visualization of consumer electronics, industrial products, automotive products, robotics, or other hard-surface products.
• Advanced proficiency in Blender, including modeling, scene organization, shading, lighting, rendering, and animation.
• Strong experience creating realistic hard-surface materials in Adobe Substance 3D Painter.
• Excellent command of product lighting, composition, color, materials, and visual storytelling.
• Experience converting engineering or industrial-design CAD data into clean, efficient, production-ready 3D assets.
• A strong understanding of common CAD-to-DCC challenges, including dense tessellation, poor topology, shading artifacts, duplicate geometry, inconsistent normals, complex assemblies, and large datasets.
• Strong compositing and image-finishing skills in Adobe Photoshop.
• Working knowledge of Adobe After Effects for animation finishing, compositing, and motion-graphics integration.
• Ability to match real-world product materials and finishes accurately, including plastics, coated metals, machined components, glass, optical surfaces, fabrics, and soft goods.
• Experience balancing physical accuracy with the visual clarity required for marketing and brand communication.
• Ability to work efficiently across multiple deliverable types while maintaining a consistently high level of craft.
• Strong organizational skills and experience working with shared production assets, versioning, naming standards, and structured file systems.
• Ability to receive direction from creative leadership, communicate progress clearly, and respond constructively to feedback.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities and deadline-driven launch work.