About Lucid

At Lucid, we are creating exceptional mobility experiences through innovation to drive the world forward. Built on Lucid’s proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture, our award-winning vehicles bring our “Compromise Nothing™” approach to the global automotive market. That means refusing to choose between performance and sustainability, design and engineering, ambition and integrity. In Lucid Air and Lucid Gravity, we have designed and built vehicles that have redefined their segments, combining exceptional range, performance, design, and expansive space in a single experience.

We achieve this through deep vertical integration, with design, engineering, and production happening in-house across our global offices and manufacturing facilities. Our teams come from industries around the world, united by a shared commitment to excellence. By refusing to settle, you can help redefine what’s possible and shape the future of mobility.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior 3D Technical Artist & Motion Designer to join the Lucid UX/UI team and help define the next generation of digital vehicle experiences.

This role sits at the intersection of 3D design, motion, real-time rendering, and product development. You will create high-quality vehicle visualizations, real-time 3D assets, animations, and motion experiences for customer-facing applications while ensuring that content performs efficiently within demanding embedded compute environments.

You will work closely with UX/UI Designers, Vehicle Designers, Engineering, Product, Marketing, and other cross-functional partners to establish both the visual quality and the production processes required to bring sophisticated 3D experiences into production.

The ideal candidate combines a strong visual eye with deep technical fluency. You should be equally comfortable refining lighting and materials in a 3D scene, rigging and animating a vehicle, optimizing an asset for a constrained GPU target, collaborating with engineers on implementation, and using emerging AI tools to accelerate and improve the creative workflow.

What You'll Do

Real-Time 3D & Visualization

Create high-quality real-time 3D vehicle models, renderings, environments, and visual experiences for customer-facing UX applications.
Develop and maintain real-time content using Unreal Engine or comparable real-time 3D engines.
Build production-quality content in Cinema 4D, including modeling, materials, lighting, cameras, animation, and rendering.
Create and optimize materials, textures, lighting, shaders, geometry, LODs, and other 3D assets for real-time applications.
Establish lighting and rendering approaches that maintain a premium visual character across a range of display and compute configurations.
Rig and animate vehicles, vehicle components, cameras, and other objects required for interactive product experiences.
Produce polished motion graphics and animated 3D sequences that communicate system states, vehicle behaviors, transitions, and product functionality.

Production & Optimization

Prepare and optimize 3D assets for resource-constrained production compute targets, balancing visual fidelity, frame rate, memory, loading performance, thermal considerations, and system limitations.
Develop scalable asset pipelines that allow complex vehicle geometry and design data to be transformed into production-ready real-time assets.
Work with engineering teams to identify performance bottlenecks and determine appropriate trade-offs between visual quality, geometry complexity, texture resolution, lighting, effects, and runtime performance.
Define standards and best practices for asset creation, naming, organization, versioning, optimization, and delivery.
Support the integration and validation of visual assets throughout development and production.

Motion & Experience Design

Work with UX and interaction designers to translate experience concepts into sophisticated motion behaviors, transitions, visual states, and 3D interactions.
Support design concept ideation and rapid prototyping by translating early UX concepts into compelling 3D visualizations, motion studies, and interactive prototypes that help teams explore, evaluate, and communicate new vehicle experiences.