Job Description
The 3D Technical Director at Aurora is responsible for developing procedural assets and tools to create realistic virtual environments and scenarios for testing autonomous vehicle perception systems, utilizing skills in Houdini, scripting, and dynamic simulations.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop procedural assets for creating realistic virtual environments.
- Design and implement world-building tools to improve scenario creation workflows.
- Generate intricate scenarios and simulations to evaluate the Aurora Driver's perception system across various sensors.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Houdini and the application of procedural and automated asset creation methodologies.
- Expertise in Python, VEX, and scripting.
- Demonstrated experience in defining and implementing scalable workflows and pipelines.
- Experience in developing procedural assets for the creation of highly realistic virtual environments.
- Experience in designing and implementing world-building tools to enhance scenario creation workflows.
- Experience in generating intricate scenarios and simulations to assess perception systems across various sensors including camera, lidar, and radar.
- Proficiency in procedural scene and geometry generation.
- Experience in modeling vehicles, sets, or human figures.
- Experience in procedural surfacing, shading, and texturing techniques.
- Experience in dynamic simulations such as rigid body dynamics, human motion synthesis, fluid or gas dynamics.
- Familiarity with Universal Scene Description (USD) is desirable.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field is implied, though not explicitly stated.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range: $150,000 - $240,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
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