NVIDIA
Senior 3D Modeler and Asset Prep Artist
USA - Santa Clara, CA - $156K/yr - $287.5K/yr
NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people.
Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing. An era in which our GPU acts as the brains of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can understand the world. Doing what’s never been done before takes vision, innovation, and the world’s best talent. As an NVIDIAN, you’ll be immersed in a diverse, supportive environment where everyone is inspired to do their best work. Join our team and discover how you can build a lasting impact on the world!
What You’ll Be Doing
As a Model Prep Artist, you’ll turn highly complex engineering CAD data into clean, efficient, and production-ready 3D assets used across NVIDIA’s visualization, simulation, and real-time pipelines. Your day-to-day work will focus on preparing large-scale product assemblies, so they perform optimally in rendering, layout, animation, and USD-based workflows.
You’ll ingest CAD data directly from engineering, interpret part revisions, and rebuild those assemblies into animation- and render-friendly hierarchies. This includes tessellating geometry for optimal visual quality and performance, repairing problem geometry, and ensuring assets meet technical and pipeline standards. You’ll also assign and remap materials using placeholder shaders or material scopes to preserve accurate visual intent while keeping assets flexible for downstream teams.
A major part of the role is building well-structured USD assets using references, instancing, and variants so that large product assemblies remain scalable, performant, and easy to update. You’ll apply consistent naming conventions, metadata, and documentation to ensure assets are readable and usable across teams.
Apple
Art Director, 3D, App Store Content
USA - Culver City, CA - $134.8K/yr - $245.8K/yr
The App Store is the world’s largest and most innovative software store. Designed to make discovering apps and games easier than ever before, the App Store offers compelling stories, in-depth interviews, helpful tips and collections of must-have apps and games that showcase Apple’s unique perspective as well as help and inspire customers every day.
The Apple Product & Design team is seeking a versatile 3D Designer to join our App Store Editorial Content Design team. As a key member of our team, you will play a pivotal role in crafting 3D-led innovative, inspiring, and visually stunning design solutions. You will work closely with designers, App Store editors and art directors to bring concepts to life and deliver impactful editorial content. You’ll bring your functional expertise to a collaborative team that is committed to creative that will energize and excite fans in new ways.
Description
From design development to final production, the 3D Content Designer will work with members of the Content Design team to deliver compelling, elegant creative, lead and inform 3D best practices. You are someone who is highly creative, a problem-solver, can multi-task and works well with production deadlines. The 3D Content Designer will help to shape the future of App Store Editorial content through a combination of technical expertise and creative vision.
VF Corporation
Principal Designer, 3D Modeling & Innovation Concepts
USA - Denver, CO - $138.2K/yr - $172.8K/yr
A day in the life of a Principal Innovation Designer — 3D Modeling & Footwear at VF looks a little like this.
This role sits within our Innovation and Advanced Concepts teams, supporting future product creation with a focus on 3D modeling and visionary footwear concept development. You’ll collaborate closely with Design, Materials, Engineering, Athlete Insights, and cross functional innovation partners. At its core, this position shapes the creative direction of next generation product experiences and brings bold future concepts to life through master level 3D modeling and storytelling. This role reports to the VP of Innovation.
Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.
Lead the creation of breakthrough footwear concepts—from early provocations to highly polished visionary models.
Develop future design languages, form strategies, and storytelling frameworks that inspire teams and senior leaders.
Drive exploration around advanced materials, cushioning systems, digital aesthetics, and upper construction.
Create high‑fidelity, museum‑quality 3D models that communicate bold future product direction.
Produce renderings, digital assets, and visual narratives used in executive storytelling and design sprints.
Champion emerging modeling techniques such as parametric, generative, computational, and sculptural workflows.
Partner closely with Design, Innovation, Materials, Engineering, and Athlete Insights to guide long‑range product vision.
Lead design reviews, offering clear creative direction and a strong aesthetic point of view.
Mentor designers and modelers—elevating craft, conceptual thinking, and creative exploration across the team.
Work with prototyping labs to translate digital concepts into expressive physical prototypes and refine designs through testing.
Unboxed Group
3D Experiential Designer
USA - Los Angeles, CA - $125K/yr - $140K/yr
Unboxed Group is a leading experiential design and production company that specializes in creating unforgettable moments and immersive experiences. With a mission to transform bold ideas into impactful events, Unboxed partners with iconic brands such as Waldorf Astoria, Spotify, Mercedes-Benz, HBO, and The Academy Awards. From concept to completion, the team of visionary designers, strategic producers, and meticulous creators ensures every production delivers lasting resonance. Based on creativity, craftsmanship, and emotional connection, Unboxed elevates events into experiences that leave a lasting impression.
Role Description
This is a full-time on-site role based in Los Angeles, CA, for 3D Experiential Designer.
We are seeking a highly creative and conceptually driven Experiential Designer to elevate brand experiences through innovative spatial design, visual storytelling, and cutting-edge technology. From immersive pop-ups and brand activations to live events and installations, you will translate strategic concepts into impactful physical environments that captivate audiences and foster meaningful connections. You will work closely with producers and creative teams to shape aesthetics, functionality, and feasibility, bringing next-level experiential designs to life. The ideal candidate possesses strong visualization skills, a passion for innovation, and a deep understanding of fabrication, materials, and lighting. If this sounds like you, we’d love to chat!
Genesis AI
Staff Technical Artist (Bay Area / Paris / Remote)
USA - San Francisco, CA
Build and optimize realistic, scalable 3D environments where robots learn to act in the world
Collaborate with AI, robotics, and graphics teams to define requirements for asset materials, shaders, lighting, and physical properties, ensuring both the visual fidelity and physical accuracy needed to train robot control models
Create tools to ingest and standardize assets from scans, CAD data, or generative AI models
Work with and manage third-party asset vendors, with the goal of building the world’s best library of assets and scenes for robotics simulation
Create stunning demos that showcase our work to the graphics community and inspire talent to join our mission
Build our in-house Real2Sim pipeline to transform real-world environments into high-fidelity digital twins for robotics training
xAI
AI Tutor - 3D Specialist
USA - Remote - $60/hr - $100/hr
xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All employees are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.
As a 3D Specialist, you will contribute to xAI’s mission by creating high-quality 3D content that supports the development of Grok’s visual understanding capabilities. Key to this role is expertise in 3D modeling, lighting, and animation, a track record of producing polished 3D work, and a refined aesthetic judgment in visual composition and technical execution.
Invisible North
3D EXPERIENTIAL DESIGNER
USA - Brooklyn, NY - $75K/yr - $85K/yr
Founded in 2012, Invisible North is a female-owned creative marketing agency headquartered in NYC with global reach. We are a team of culturally fluent strategists, creatives, designers and producers pushing the limits of possibility. Together we champion creativity and build thoughtful experiences and content that solve business problems and bring brands to life.
We are seeking a 3D Experiential Designer to join our team! The 3D Experiential Designer will be responsible for collaborating on projects from proposal through execution, transforming creative ideas into tangible, executable experiences through 2D & 3D designs. Additionally, this role will positively contribute to making Invisible North’s culture an envy of the industry, a studio that turns out jaw dropping creative and design and does so by upholding an inclusive, flexible and giving work environment.
Ross Video
Graphic Designer - 3D Animation (Job Req #2026-093)
USA - Remote
Why Work at Ross Video? We have a great group of people working together to create and deliver cutting edge products that look amazing and are easy to use. We go all out so that our customers can have the best possible experience and achieve quality results. With a product focus, continual learning, results driven processes, and creative thinking, we constantly strive to improve our solutions and to deliver results. If you’ve ever watched live television, news, sports, or entertainment, you’ve seen our products in use. All of the major Hollywood award shows, most professional sports teams, and many of the largest broadcasters in the world use Ross Video technology. Get behind the scenes and learn about what it takes to make live events possible. If that resonates, and you’re someone with integrity, commitment, and a strong drive to deliver great products, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview:
As a Graphic Designer at Ross Video, you will play a key role in creating visually stunning content to engage our clients and enhance their broadcast & stadium productions. Leveraging your expertise in 3D animation and motion graphics, you will collaborate with our talented team to produce captivating visual elements that elevate the quality of our clients’ productions.
What the job is all about:
Conceptualize, design, and animate 3D graphics and motion graphics for broadcast & stadium productions, including player, team and marketing moments of exclusivity, augmented reality elements, lower thirds, and other data visualization assets.
Work closely with the creative team, producers, and clients to understand project requirements and deliver high-quality visual content that aligns with client objectives.
Utilize industry-leading software tools such as Adobe After Effects, Cinema 4D, and others to create dynamic and engaging animations.
Combine these tools with Ross XPression templated designs and animations based on the standardized workflow outlined by the Director, Creative Services.
Maintain a keen eye for detail and ensure all graphics and animations meet the highest standards of quality and technical precision.
Stay updated on emerging trends and technologies in 3D animation and motion graphics, bringing fresh ideas and innovative approaches to projects.
This is an 8-month, fixed-term contract position.*
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