Position Summary

Are you excited about shaping products that are used by millions of users worldwide? Join our Graphics and GUI Lab team at Huawei Finland Research Center and play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality visuals and optimizing performance with our in-house developed graphics rendering engine.

We are building a new world-class operating and developer ecosystem along with a seamless user experience through our 1+8+N product and software strategy, and you’ll play a key role in bringing the best user experiences for Huawei consumers worldwide. Huawei’s 1+8+N strategy is based on a concept to deliver digital to every home, person, and organization to create a fully connected intelligent world. This ecosystem brings a collection of new technologies that work together to deliver the world’s most exciting new intelligently connected digital experience which can be controlled by the smartphone and connected by Harmony OS Next.

As a Technical Artist, you will collaborate with designers, artists and developers to create efficient, high-quality 3D visual content and effects for mobile OS applications including user interfaces and user experience in all Huawei products.

Key Responsibilities

• Pipeline Development: Design, develop, and maintain art production pipelines to streamline workflows for asset creation, integration, and optimization.
• Tool Creation: Build custom tools for Technical Artist usage when needed (e.g., scripts, plugins) to automate repetitive tasks for artists.
• Asset Optimization: Optimize 3D models, textures, shaders, and animations to meet performance requirements (e.g., frame rate, memory usage) without sacrificing visual quality.
• Shader Development: Create and implement shaders (e.g., in GLSL, or with Shader Graphs) to achieve desired visual effects.
• Troubleshooting: Debug and resolve technical issues related to graphical assets, rendering performance and visual quality.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in relevant 3D Artist role with solid understanding of art and animation pipelines
• Experience on Physically Based Materials usage (PBR) and understanding of Mobile GPU related restrictions in real-time rendering
• Experience in 3D modelling with Blender, Maya or similar tools
• Experience with shader programming and/or Shader Graph
• Familiarity with artistic and technical aspects of asset creation pipeline, animation and rendering
• Understanding of modeling, texturing, rigging, shader writing, lighting, composition, visual effects
• Understanding of Khronos gITF 3D format and the whole pipeline from modeling to real-time 3D graphics engines (e.g., Unity, Unreal or Godot)
• High attention to details
• Scripting and programming skills (e.g., C++) are considered a plus

Contract period and starting date: The position is a full-time/long-term contractor position and the contract will be signed with our supplier. We expect the role to start as soon as possible.

Location: Tampere or Helsinki, Finland.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work at the intersection of art and technology, creating visually stunning and technically innovative solutions in Huawei products
• Chance to contribute to high-profile projects where your work directly shapes the final product
• Be a part of dynamic, interdisciplinary team environment where you’ll work closely with programmers and designers
• Opportunity to develop your skills and competences through hands-on experience with next-gen tech while learning from the best of mobile industry
• Excellent working tools and equipment that enable you to perform at your best
• International atmosphere with global impact and a culture that values creativity, problem-solving and cross-disciplinary collaboration

Are you ready for the challenge?

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. With integrated solutions across four key domains – telecom networks, IT, smart devices, and cloud services – we are committed to bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

At Huawei, innovation focuses on customer needs. We invest heavily in basic research, concentrating on technological breakthroughs that drive the world forward. We have 207,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

Huawei continues to invest in basic research and open innovation, and accommodates and addresses customer needs with an open mind, while steering these needs with science and technology. We have also built flexible business models and encourage numerous industries to adopt a vast range of models and applications. Through such initiatives, we are bringing digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world.

We seek and reward talent! At Huawei, if you are dedicated to creativity, engagement of technical risks and delivery of target-driven results, your efforts will be rewarded with outstanding career prospects.

About Huawei Finland R&D

With 28 sites across Europe and over 2000 researchers, Huawei’s European Research Institute (ERI) oversees fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning across our network of European R&D facilities. Huawei Finland Research Center was established in 2012. At our sites in Helsinki and Tampere, you will have an outstanding opportunity to be part of the leading research and development of future smart devices. We offer a career in a forward-looking industrial research team with a solid track record in innovation and publication and delivering its result as a factual contribution to on-the-market devices.