Sr. 3D Generalist, UX

Newark, CAfull timeOn Site

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senior

$142k–$195k

H1B: no

Lucidmotors Sr. 3D Generalist, UX at Lucidmotors creates high-quality real-time 3D vehicle visualizations and animations for customer-facing applications. The role involves working with Unreal Engine, Cinema 4D, and collaborating across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior 3D Technical Artist & Motion Designer to join the Lucid UX/UI team and help define the next generation of digital vehicle experiences.
This role sits at the intersection of 3D design, motion, real-time rendering, and product development. You will create high-quality vehicle visualizations, real-time 3D assets, animations, and motion experiences for customer-facing applications while ensuring that content performs efficiently within demanding embedded compute environments.
The ideal candidate combines a strong visual eye with deep technical fluency. You should be equally comfortable refining lighting and materials in a 3D scene, rigging and animating a vehicle, optimizing an asset for a constrained GPU target, collaborating with engineers on implementation, and using emerging AI tools to accelerate and improve the creative workflow.
Real-Time 3D & Visualization
Create high-quality real-time 3D vehicle models, renderings, environments, and visual experiences for customer-facing UX applications.
Develop and maintain real-time content using Unreal Engine or comparable real-time 3D engines.
Build production-quality content in Cinema 4D, including modeling, materials, lighting, cameras, animation, and rendering.
Create and optimize materials, textures, lighting, shaders, geometry, LODs, and other 3D assets for real-time applications.
Establish lighting and rendering approaches that maintain a premium visual character across a range of display and compute configurations.
Rig and animate vehicles, vehicle components, cameras, and other objects required for interactive product experiences.
Produce polished motion graphics and animated 3D sequences that communicate system states, vehicle behaviors, transitions, and product functionality.
Production & Optimization

Qualification

Experience developing automotive HMIExperience with shader developmentFamiliarity with tools such as HoudiniExperience building reusable toolsWhat Success Looks Like

Preferred

Experience developing automotive HMI, digital cockpit, ADAS visualization, navigation, charging, or vehicle-state experiences.
Experience working with vehicle CAD and converting engineering/design geometry into optimized real-time assets.
Experience with shader development, procedural materials, particle systems, or other real-time visual-effects workflows.
Familiarity with tools such as Houdini, Blender, Maya, Substance 3D, or comparable 3D content-creation applications.
Familiarity with scripting or pipeline automation using Python or similar technologies.
Experience developing content for embedded GPUs or other environments where GPU, CPU, memory, bandwidth, and thermal constraints directly influence design decisions.
Experience building reusable tools, templates, or pipelines that enable designers to produce and iterate on real-time content more efficiently.
What Success Looks Like