3D Polygon Modeler

Who are we?
Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.
Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent.
We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future.

What’s in it for you?
Do you want be part of our Visualization department at Volvo Cars Design with the ambition of becoming the best in our industry? To be a part of a team of Artists and Developers focused on digital car dataset creation enabling for streamlined content creation, future customer experience and XR development?
We are now searching for an experienced 3D polygon modeler to join our Technical Visualization team. To succeed in this role, we believe you have a passion for creating soft part models in an accurate and structured way with an eye for detail to create models as a base for photorealistic renders.
The team has a focus on realizing design projects into commercial assets mainly through the concepts Digital Twin and Digital Universe. By creating a customer digital twin car dataset, improve content creation pipeline and enable for creation of customer experiences of tomorrow, we create the opportunity for our surrounding world to explore our products.

What you will do:
As a 3D polygon modeler, you will create models of soft parts according to a set workflow. The soft parts are modeled in high poly and low poly versions including optimization by using photos, CAD data and physical models as reference. The models are inserted into a digital car dataset that forms the base for commercial assets like images, animations, and 3D experiences.

Do you fit the profile?
We believe you have experience working as a 3D polygon modeler in the automotive or gaming industry. You have advanced software skills in tools such as Blender, Maya or 3dsMax and understand polygon modeling workflow with best practices of topology and edge flow for both subdiv and lowpoly models. You know how to work with UV unwrapping, shadows and normals baking, materials assignments, hierarchies, and scene tree management. Scripting knowledge in Python or MEL is a plus and a big bonus if you have experience in Deltagen for gathering, organizing and cleanup reference CAD models.

We believe you have a master’s degree from a university, technical college or similar and a great understanding of visualization software and technical pipeline for content creation. You have several years of relevant experience within this technical area, i.e., from other automotive company, computer game industry, CGI production company or product experience company.
You as a person is motivated and engaged and a “nothing is impossible” attitude. You like to share knowledge and enjoys working in teams. We believe you have good cooperation and communication skills. As we strive to be the best in our field, we are happy to see that you are highly driven and result focused.
Last but not least you are fluent in English since Volvo is a global company.

How to learn more and apply:
Does this sound like your next challenge? Please don’t wait with your application, we will start the recruitment process immediately. We welcome your application by the 5th of April at the latest. Please submit your application in English and note we do not handle any applications over email due to GDPR. Portfolio is a requirement.
For additional questions about the position feel free to contact the recruiter Daniel Sanfridsson at daniel.sanfridsson@volvocars.com.