Webaverse is hiring a

Web3 Technical Artist

Who We Are

We're building a virtual world from open source and p2p technology that players create and own. Everything in the world is an NFT. There's an inventory system, so you can bring your items and favorite memes to share with your friends. Multiplayer is built with WebRTC and y.js (CRDTs). https://webaverse.com and our open alpha: https://app.webaverse.com

Why You Should Work with Us

We're a young company, but we've accomplished a lot in that short time. What we've done wouldn't have been possible without passionate people, dedicated to our vision of an open and democratic metaverse. If you too would like to get in on the ground floor of the next major Internet revolution, if you too have the passion, the singular obsession to see the 3D web realized in all its glory, then we want to hear from you.

You’ll Be Responsible for...

• Working with concept artists, 3d artists, animators, and 2d artists to bring the game world to life while keeping it visually stunning and performant

You’re a Good Fit if...

You are/have:

• Passion for aesthetically pleasing game art
• Easily annoyed by aliasing and visual artifacts
• Strong understanding of smooth blending and compositing techniques
• Expert in handling transparent/semitransparent rendering
• Expert in standard shader and lighting pipelines (e.g. PBR)
• Ability to read and modify any shader code
• Large repertoire of known shader techniques
• Bonus: lots of experience working with the web shader stack (WebGL, GLSL, especially THREE.js)
• Experience with multiview rendering (mirrors, cameras, portals)
• Experience with advanced shading techniques (reprojection, multi-pass rendering, SSAO, DOF, HDR)
• Skilled in framebuffer pipeline management (swapping, stalls, resize)
• Expert in 3D math, including matrices, vectors, quaternions, trigonomery, and reference frames
• Have worked with custom shadowing stacks (e.g. cascaded shadow maps, shadow volumes)
• Have worked with 3d textures/voxel lighting
• Have worked with meshing systems (marching cubes, dual contouring)
• Passion for procedural generation algorithms (noises, fractals, cellular automata, noise textures, etc)
• Familiarity with material and geometry hacking + overrides (e.g. precomputed attributes, material swaps)
• Skilled at working with texture mapping (UV, mesh parameterization, triplanar projection)
• Skilled at performance tuning (draw lists, texture bandwidth management, shader optimization, transform feedback, overdraw)
• Familiarity with optimization techniques like baking, texture atlasing, instancing, LOD, culling, etc
• Ability to test, debug, and tune graphics performance across hardware devices

Our Process

• Application review
• Interviews via Voice/Video Call or Discord Chat
• Coding challenge - We will provide a task from our open issues - Any solution we use will be paid for
• Contract negotiations
• Total expected time to hire: A few days to a couple weeks

Webaverse focuses on Video Games, Web Development, and Virtual Reality. Their company has offices in Remote. They have a small team that's between 11-50 employees. To date, Webaverse has raised $2M of funding; their latest round was closed on January 2021 at a valuation of $20M.

You can view their website at https://www.webaverse.com or find them on Twitter.

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