🏢 Company: Cyberdrone
🌍 Location: Fully Remote or Dubai Office (visa + health insurance + annual flight provided)
💻 Type: Full-Time
💸 Pay: Competitive (not listed)
🛠️ Skills & Responsibilities:
- Bachelor's in Art/Design or 7+ years industry experience; 3+ years in drone shows, motion design, game dev (TechArt/Real-Time VFX), or VFX
- Develop 3D models, animations, and transitions for drone shows
- Run physics checks, corrections, take-off/landing sequences
- Implement client and technical feedback into final show assembly and flight preparation
- Create static and animation preview renders
- Build simulation- and animation-ready procedural assets with Houdini
- Maintain and develop in-house assets, tools library, and internal technical guidelines
- R&D of technical solutions to support creative vision and solve unique production challenges
- Deep understanding of CG animation pipelines and physically based simulation techniques
- Experience in VEX and Python development for VFX
- Working knowledge of real-time/interactive media pipelines (TouchDesigner/VVVV)
- GitLab integration or similar version control experience
- Required: Houdini, Blender, Compositing (AE/Nuke/Fusion), Photoshop & Illustrator
- Bonus: TouchDesigner/VVVV, Redshift/Octane Render, Unreal Engine
- 24 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
💡 Stand Out By: Drone show experience is the top differentiator so lead with it if you have it. Otherwise highlight Houdini procedural/simulation work, Python and VEX scripting, and any live event or large-scale coordinated system production background.
💰 Pay Analysis: No figure listed despite "competitive" framing. Dubai senior CG/TechArt roles typically range AED 18k-30k/month (~$4,900-$8,200 USD) tax-free. Visa, health insurance, and annual flight add meaningful value for international relocators.
🚩 Watch For: Request a salary range before investing time in the application. Clarify team size, pipeline maturity, and R&D scope. Dubai hires should confirm visa processing timelines and what happens to visa status if the role ends. Get remote arrangement in writing.
Lead Id: 15673