3D Artist/ Tech Artist

**What is Yaak?**:
Yaak is developing a driver coaching platform (SafetyOS) that prioritizes safety. Partnering with our driving school customers around the world, we codify into SafetyOS their decades of experience in scoring, detecting, explaining and correcting human driving. We actually don't do anything with yaks.

**Why human driving?**:
The year 2007 heralded new possibilities in autonomous driving. The excitement wasn't unfounded of course. We had solved driving in the rugged terrain of the Mojave Desert, with no internet connection and without supervision. Full Self-Driving seemed like a few years away. A decade, a deep learning revolution, and many $B later we are still waiting for it, if/when it's unaffordable.

At Yaak we asked ourselves how to go about building AI that is provably safe and generalized to unseen data/environments? How can we bake explainability into it from the ground up? Instead of building a classic AV stack, why not build a safety-first driving platform that can score, detect, explain and correct human driving with high precision _before _it's allowed on public roads.

What is the place of Simulation in all this?

Our in-vehicle VR simulation kit not only scores many points in bullshit bingo for its fancy name, it also allows driving schools to provide an enriched, overarching learning experience for the students, which in turn allows us to generate more valuable data to develop and improve our SafetyOS. It provides efficient learning experiences specific to the schools' regions and tailored to the student's progress, adding to the normal driving experience by providing a safe and fun way of learning how to drive.

**The Role**:

- You define and develop aesthetics and keep the VR world beautiful to look at
- You ensure that the art style is coherent throughout the range of assets in the simulator
- You design and create a wide array of performance-optimized visual assets and assemble scenes for both architectural and organic environments
- You create educational content together with level designers and technical artists using procedural content creation techniques

**Qualifications**:
You won't see hard requirements here for certain degrees or exact years of experience because we know everyone has their own unique journey. If you're brilliant at your craft and are either an experienced collaborator or motivated to learn and excel at it, we'll know it when we see it.
You have:

- Strong artistic ability to visualize entire levels and detail with mínimal direction
- Technical ability to manage assets to fit memory, design, and frame rate limits
- A natural ability for keeping the art style consistent
- An interest to work within the whole spectrum of real-time content creation, from animation and texture baking to lighting and optimization

Big plus for:

- Experience using low poly and mínimalistic visual approaches
- You have worked in a distributed team for an extended period of time

Bonus points for:

- Having worked on a driving game/simulator before
- Experience with stylized game art
- Experience using Houdini or other procedural workflows

**Perks**:

- Competitive compensation package with employee stock options program
- Yearly public transport ticket and mobility bonus
- Flexible work-from-home policy (even when the world is pandemic-free)
- Quarterly off-site somewhere in the world, to regroup with the team and plan
- Work in an international team full of talented, chill and cooky people
- Visa and relocation support

**Distributed-first perks**:

- Free access to corporate apartment in Berlin (Yaak HQ)
- Company credit card for managing regular travel to Yaak HQ

**Diversity in Tech**:
Yaak is committed to fostering diversity and inclusion. We want you on our team — no matter your ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or if you’re currently parenting the next world leader. It's our belief that the best work gets done when one feels appreciated, supported and are their most authentic self.