There is a need for help with plant cultivation and management for assets which may be sold online.

In the best case, you will have tended to plants in other gardens, preferably professionally owned or operated. You will have experience with cultivating your own plants, including exotic plants and tropical plants. You will be aware of hydroponics and understand the ideologies behind hydroponic cultivation and its benefits against traditional arable cultivation.

Key Skills:

• Knowledge of arable (soil) gardening and agriculture
• Knowledge of hydroponics and automated watering systems
• Knowledge of basic growing mediums such as rockwool, expanded clay pellets, foam, cloning collars, coco coir/peat, perlite, peat
• Knowledge of grow lights including L.E.D., High Pressure Sodium, Fluorescent tube, Metal Halide
• Knowledge of wet and dry synthetic fertilizers
• Knowledge of E.C. (electrical conducitivity) measurements, P.H. measurements
• Knowledge of plant propagation (from both cuttings as well as sowing of runners)
• Ability to handle large drums (usually empty) when transporting water to gardens via a pump
• Ability to use a pump to transport large amounts of water from a drum to a reservoir or from a reservoir to an sewer drain for disposal
• Knowledge of pest management including hydrogen peroxide, spinosad, neem oil, pyrethrins, beneficial insects / nematodes
• Knowledge of system maintenance including cleaning and flushing with bleach and isopropyl alcohol

Nice to Have:

• Experience with nutrient film technique (NFT), kratky, floating raft, wicking bed, top drip, flood and drain, vertical hydroponics / vertical hydroponic farming and cultivation
• Experience with aeroponics (high and low pressure) including air pumps / air stones
• Experience with grow tents, including ducting and air intake fans
• Experience with aquaponics
• Experience with P.A.R. meter measurements for light and an understanding of PPFD
• Experience with tissue culture / micropropagation is very coveted

Desirable Experience:

• At least one year prior experience in a similar role (can be hobbyist at home)
• Prior experience in / knowledge of the horticulture industry or big agriculture industry

Key Qualities:

• Effective communication skills, solutions oriented, friendly and personable
• Time and priorities management aptitude
• Analytical disposition, proactive

There is a need for an environment designer to work environments for upcoming projects, particularly space simulation games.

In the best case, you will have a showreel that demonstrates a significant original work or be actively working on a space game such a 6 degree of freedom title, or a sci-fi themed game involving space ships.

Key Skills:

• Unreal Engine
• Knowledge of some 3d program like Blender, 3ds Max or Maya, and understanding of importing assets created there to Unreal
• Understand Unreal Engine UI / fundamentals
• Understand themes of design and lighting to coordinate environments
• Thoroughly understand Unreal Static Meshes and how to link code to blueprints created from them for any entity, such as a weapon powerup or space ship with attributes like health and fuel
• Thoroughly understand Unreal Engine blueprints, Unreal UMG, Unreal Marketplace assets, Epic Games Launcher pipeline to import assets from the marketplace
• Thoroughly understand completing tasks using blueprints to perform gameplay functions

Nice to Have:

• Texturing
• Unreal building from source
• Experience with Unreal Music integration

Desirable Experience:

• At least one year prior experience in a similar development role
• Prior experience in the VFX production, entertainment, media or gaming industries

Key Qualities:

• Effective communication skills, solutions oriented, friendly and personable
• Time and priorities management aptitude
• Analytical disposition, proactive

There is a need for an Unreal Engine developer to work on upcoming projects, particularly space simulation games.

In the best case, you will have a showreel that demonstrates a significant original work or be actively working on a space game such a 6 degree of freedom title, or a sci-fi themed game involving space ships.

Key Skills:

• Unreal Engine
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Understand Unreal Engine UI / fundamentals
• Thoroughly understand Unreal Static Meshes and how to link code to blueprints created from them for any entity, such as a weapon powerup or space ship with attributes like health and fuel
• Thoroughly understand Unreal Engine blueprints, Unreal UMG, Unreal Marketplace assets, Epic Games Launcher pipeline to import assets from the marketplace
• Thoroughly understand completing tasks using blueprints to perform gameplay functions, and add replication to these tasks so they are properly configured for multiplayer play

Nice to Have:

• Unreal Building from source
• Unreal Dedicated servers
• Unreal Linux toolchain support for serverside builds
• Unreal AI for 6dof games - EQS / Behavior Trees / Don3D Pathfinding / UESVON
• Experience with Unreal Music integration

Desirable Experience:

• At least one year prior experience in a similar development role
• Prior experience in the VFX production, entertainment, media or gaming industries

Key Qualities:

• Effective communication skills, solutions oriented, friendly and personable
• Time and priorities management aptitude
• Analytical disposition, proactive

There is a need for a Unity designer to work on upcoming pixel-based game projects, particularly a 2d platformer game, as well as a 2d roguelike topdown bullet-hell shooter game.

In the best case, you will have a showreel that demonstrates a significant original work or be actively working on a Unity platformer/roguelike pixel-based games.

Key Skills:

• Unity
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Aseprite
• Pyxel Edit
• Understand Unity UI / fundamentals
• Thoroughly understand .unity assets and editing their properties in the Unity inspector
• Creating sprite sheets in Aseprite and Pyxel Edit
• Using the Sprite Editor in unity to slice sprite sheets by cell size
• Making animations from sliced sprite sheet image files, and tying animations into animation controller flow logic

Nice to Have:

• Unity multiplayer knowledge
• Unity AI pathfinding knowledge
• Experience with Unity music integration

Desirable Experience:

• At least one year prior experience in a similar development role
• Prior experience in the VFX production, entertainment, media or gaming industries

Key Qualities:

• Effective communication skills, solutions oriented, friendly and personable
• Time and priorities management aptitude
• Analytical disposition, proactive

There is a need for a Unity developer to work on upcoming pixel-based game projects, particularly a 2d platformer game, as well as a 2d roguelike topdown bullet-hell shooter game.

In the best case, you will have a showreel that demonstrates a significant original work or be actively working on a Unity platformer/roguelike pixel-based games.

Key Skills:

• Unity
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Understand Unity UI / fundamentals
• Thoroughly understand .unity assets and editing their properties in the Unity inspector
• Thoroughly understand performing gameplay functions with main playable character or AI characters using scripted C sharp files (such as running, firing weapons, jumping, or other behaviors and tie in interactions with other AI characters as well).

Nice to Have:

• Unity multiplayer knowledge
• Unity AI pathfinding knowledge
• Experience with Unity music integration

Desirable Experience:

• At least one year prior experience in a similar development role
• Prior experience in the VFX production, entertainment, media or gaming industries

Key Qualities:

• Effective communication skills, solutions oriented, friendly and personable
• Time and priorities management aptitude
• Analytical disposition, proactive

A concept artist is needed to help pre-visualize various creature characters. The concepts will be individual, detailed orthogonal versions of creature concepts and will not involve environments or multiple figures.

In the best case, you will have a showreel that demonstrates a significant original work of concept art that was eventually processed into a fully completed 3d design complemented with a carefully crafted texture set.

Key Skills:

• Photoshop
• Thoroughly understand composition, balance, positive and negative space, lighting, anatomy, form, and silhouette
• Understand the creation and importance of orthogonal concept sketches (front, side, top views)
• Understand color theory including complementary and analogous colors
• Understand light and how it interacts with the colors mapped on 3D objects, including specular and diffuse light
• Understand Photoshop mattes, layer masks, brushes, healing, blend modes, and adjustment layers including levels/curves/hue and saturation, including all other general aspects

Nice to Have:

• Wacom Tablet
• Attended life drawing classes
• Knowledge of fine art
• Knowledge of traditional art history
• Feature experience
• Broadcast experience
• Knowledge of how to create a 3d model based on drawn concepts
• Any ZBrush or 3ds Max knowledge, including UV mapping and ZBrush polypainting

Desirable Experience:

• At least two years prior experience in a similar development role
• Prior experience in the VFX production, entertainment, media or gaming industries

Key Qualities:

• Effective communication skills, solutions oriented, friendly and personable
• Time and priorities management aptitude
• Analytical disposition, proactive

This is a special offering to learn new things and try various experiments with the company during its growth cycle on a voluntary, opt-in basis in exchange for company equity. This is a technical offering and a broad skill set and desire for research will be required for consideration.

A requirement is that strict non-disclosure be maintained for all research projects, with the exception of any research work done for personal projects that do not relate to the organization in any way.

Research tasks:

• Programming (html5, C#, C, C++, ajax, php, css, mysql, javascript)
• 3d (motion capture, motion tracking, compositing, fire/water/cloth simulation, texturing, game development)
• Philanthropy (U.S. education, diabetes awareness, tobacco awareness, global childhood mortality)
• Electrical engineering (development of simple devices including gsm phones and netbooks)
• Large-scale 3D Printing (low cost parts)
• Batteries (next-generation battery development)
• Contact Lens Display (without head-mount or attachments)
• Nanotechnology using UV projected circuitry / miniaturized AI to influence swarms
• High-Efficiency Propulsion system / Warp drive (development of aerial vehicle prototype / antimatter drives / ultra high energy matter conversion system for warp drive)