Blender-Driven 3D Generalist: Modeling, Rigging & Animation

Cashback24x7; Indiana; On-site; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Join a leading AI lab's GenAI team as a 3D Generalist responsible for modeling, rigging and animation, with Blender-first workflows and Python scripting for automation. Bring real production judgment to AI training data as part of a 40-hour weekly, full-time W-2 role through Cincinnatus LLC at the client site in the United States.

Responsibilities include guiding research teams, creating production-ready tasks, evaluating AI-generated assets, and building quality checks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of shipped 3D work at a game studio, animation or VFX studio, product-visualization or e-commerce 3D team, or creative agency.
• Daily, production-level Blender, with Maya, 3ds Max, ZBrush, Substance Painter or Houdini as secondary tools; diagnose quickly when given a stranger's .blend.
• Python scripting in Blender (bpy): batch, validate, rig, export or automate production work.
• Clean quad topology, retopology of sculpts or scans, UV unwrapping and packing, baking from high to low, and PBR metal-rough texturing at 4K.
• Skeletal rigging and skinning: joint placement, weight painting, IK/FK controls, shape keys, and looping animation exported as .glb or .fbx.

Responsibilities

• Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in 3D modeling, texturing, rigging and animation, and 3D product modeling.
• Design challenging, real-world 3D tasks drawn from studio and client workflows, and produce reference deliverables in editable source formats such as .blend, .fbx, .glb and, where CAD is involved, .step or .stl.
• Evaluate AI-generated 3D assets and give clear, written feedback, catching problems with topology, UVs, materials, scale, skin weights, rig behavior and animation loops.
• Develop guidelines, rubrics and quality checks for 3D work, including scripted mesh, UV and rig checks in Blender Python.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

Job description

Join a leading AI lab's GenAI team as a 3D Generalist responsible for modeling, rigging and animation, with Blender-first workflows and Python scripting for automation. Bring real production judgment to AI training data as part of a 40-hour weekly, full-time W-2 role through Cincinnatus LLC at the client site in the United States.

Responsibilities include guiding research teams, creating production-ready tasks, evaluating AI-generated assets, and building quality checks.