Senior Prop Artist (Robotics)

Location: Paris; hybrid

Company

hirify.global is building Genesis World, a multi-physics simulation engine paired with Nyx, an in-house path-traced photorealistic renderer for robotics and embodied AI.

What you will do

• Create photorealistic props and digital twins end-to-end, including modeling, high-poly sculpting, retopology, UVs, and PBR texturing.
• Recreate real-world objects from references and photogrammetry while matching dimensions, materials, and wear.
• Clean, retopologize, and optimize scanned and existing assets for real-time performance without sacrificing fidelity.
• Author assets within strict polygon, texture, and memory budgets for GPU-accelerated real-time rendering.
• Collaborate with rendering and physics engineers to ensure visual and physical correctness in-engine.
• Maintain naming, consistency, and quality standards across the prop library.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a prop, hard-surface, or environment artist.
• Shipped work created under AAA real-time engine constraints in games, rather than VFX.
• Strong modeling skills in Maya and/or Blender, plus sculpting expertise in ZBrush.
• Mastery of PBR texturing with Substance Painter and/or Substance Designer.
• Experience with photogrammetry and scan cleanup, including converting raw scans into production-ready assets.
• Deep understanding of polygon budgets, LODs, texture memory, and real-time optimization tradeoffs.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with real-time and GPU-accelerated rendering pipelines, including asset behavior in path-traced renderers.
• Interest or experience in robotics, embodied AI, or sim-to-real workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a hybrid format from Paris.
• Apply game-caliber art skills to robotics and embodied AI simulation.
• Collaborate directly with rendering and physics engineering specialists.