Digital Human Specialist

About the Role

We are searching for an inventive and technically skilled Digital Human Specialist to help craft lifelike, expressive, and interactive digital humans tailored for AI-empowered experiences spanning virtual environments, media, entertainment, education, and cutting-edge digital platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop both realistic and stylized digital human characters for AI-driven and interactive applications.
• Outline defining traits of digital humans such as appearance, age, physical features, visual style, movement, facial expressions, voice, and overall presence.
• Collaborate with 3D artists and technical teams to build premium digital human assets including facial and body models, textures, hair, clothing, and accessories.
• Integrate conversational, behavioral, emotional, and interactive functionalities by partnering with AI teams.
• Create detailed facial expressions, gestures, body language, eye movement, posture, and other subtle non-verbal cues.
• Enhance digital human performances through animation, motion and facial capture, procedural methods, and AI-aided techniques.
• Assess digital human creations for realism, consistency, emotional authenticity, visual fidelity, and user engagement.
• Produce character references, personality descriptions, visual style guides, and performance documentation.
• Align voice characteristics with character identity through coordination with voice and speech experts.
• Work with developers and technical artists to optimize digital humans for real-time environments including games, VR/AR, and interactive platforms.
• Investigate new technologies in AI-generated characters, generative AI, real-time rendering, motion capture, facial animation, and virtual production.
• Experiment with and evaluate various tools, models, pipelines, and workflows for creating and animating digital humans.
• Spot and resolve visual, behavioral, or technical inconsistencies in collaboration with relevant teams.
• Maintain organized documentation on character development, specifications, references, and version control.
• Engage in creative reviews, prototype assessments, user testing, and iterative refinement processes.

Candidate Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Digital Media, Computer Graphics, Animation, Visual Effects, Game Development, Interactive Media, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Performing Arts, or related fields; equivalent professional experience is also considered.
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in digital character creation, 3D production, animation, virtual humans, digital media, VFX, gaming, XR, or similar areas.
• Comprehensive knowledge of digital human creation pipelines and production techniques for realistic and stylized characters.
• Experience with 3D software, real-time engines, digital character systems, and animation pipelines.
• Familiarity with facial and body animation, motion and performance capture, and procedural character animation.
• Good understanding of human anatomy, facial expressions, body language, and visual communication principles.
• Knowledge or experience in AI-driven character generation, conversational AI, and generative AI is highly preferred.
• Strong visual acuity for detail in facial realism, movement fluidity, expressions, proportions, materials, and overall consistency.
• Adeptness at collaborating across creative and technical disciplines.
• Skilled in problem solving, prototyping, and rapidly adapting workflows to emerging technologies.
• Familiarity with real-time digital experiences, immersive environments, or interactive tech is advantageous.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Capability to manage numerous character development tasks while ensuring quality and uniformity.
• Portfolio showcasing relevant work with digital humans, 3D characters, animation, VFX, games, XR, or interactive projects.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a bonus.

What We Provide

• Participation in an innovative digital human and AI character development program.
• A collaborative and interdisciplinary atmosphere bringing together AI, digital art, animation, performance, 3D, XR, and interactive technologies.
• Opportunities to experiment with new AI and digital human technologies and forge novel creative methods.
• Work alongside artists, AI experts, developers, animators, technical artists, and other tech and creative professionals.
• Access to the latest digital production, AI, character, and real-time technological tools.
• Chance to contribute to prominent digital human, virtual character, and immersive experience projects.
• Professional growth opportunities with an emphasis on building a distinguished portfolio in a cutting-edge technology domain.
• Competitive remuneration aligned with experience and responsibilities.