Sr. 3D Generalist, UX

The role

You will create high-quality real-time 3D vehicle models, renderings, and motion experiences for customer-facing UX applications. You will work at the intersection of 3D design, motion, real-time rendering, and product development to ensure content performs efficiently in embedded compute environments.

What you will do

• Create high-quality real-time 3D vehicle models, renderings, environments, and visual experiences.
• Develop and maintain real-time content using Unreal Engine or comparable engines.
• Build production-quality content in Cinema 4D.
• Create and optimize materials, textures, lighting, shaders, geometry, and LODs.
• Rig and animate vehicles, components, and cameras.
• Produce polished motion graphics and animated 3D sequences.
• Prepare and optimize 3D assets for resource-constrained production compute targets.
• Develop scalable asset pipelines.
• Work with engineering teams to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Translate experience concepts into motion behaviors, transitions, and 3D interactions.

Required qualifications

• 5–8+ years of professional experience developing and shipping high-quality 3D content for customer-facing digital products.
• Demonstrated experience shipping real-time 3D content on resource-constrained compute platforms.
• Advanced experience with Unreal Engine or a comparable real-time 3D engine.
• Strong professional experience with Cinema 4D and Adobe After Effects.
• Expert understanding of real-time 3D fundamentals including modeling, topology, UVs, texturing, PBR materials, lighting, rigging, animation, cameras, composition, LOD, and optimization.
• Strong motion-design sensibility.
• Ability to work with high-complexity source assets.
• Experience collaborating directly with software and graphics engineers.
• Fluency with contemporary AI-assisted creative tools and workflows.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• A portfolio demonstrating visual craft and technical execution, including shipped real-time 3D and motion content.

Nice to have

• 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 with GPU, CPU, memory, bandwidth, and thermal constraints.
• Experience building reusable tools, templates, or pipelines.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid sick leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Salaried/exempt employees accrue up to 160 hours paid time off
• Equity program
• Discretionary annual cash incentive program

About the company

Lucid is creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation. They use proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture to build award-winning vehicles.