Title: Vehicle Artist

Reports to: Vehicle Art Lead

Group: Digital & Synthetic CU: NOR

Level: S2

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Company Overview

Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects-as-a-service across Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, Digital & Synthetic domains via its capability groups. Metrea also consists of six support groups (Operations, People, Finance, Legal, Strategy and Solutions) that guide the development of specific capabilities that Metrea's files (product, projects, programs etc) leverage to achieve their targets.

Capability Group Overview

The Digital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S) is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.

The NOR platform brings the cutting-edge technology, scalability and accessibility of commercial game engines to the high-end military training and simulation market, creating an ultimate-fidelity physics-based military simulator.

Position Summary

A Vehicle Artist creates ultimate-fidelity vehicle assets for the NOR simulation platform, utilising mid-poly and/or high-to-low-poly modelling, UV unwrapping, texturing, through to importing the asset into Unreal Engine and preparing it for use in NOR. In addition, a Vehicle Artist works collaboratively with other artists on larger simulation assets, and is responsible for handling bug fixes related to their artwork.

Role and Responsibilities

• Creation of ultimate-fidelity vehicle art assets to established art specifications
• Mid-poly and/or high-to-low-poly modelling
• UV unwrapping
• Texturing
• Unreal Engine imports and artwork setups
• Take part in art review and mentorship sessions with seniors/leads
• Work collaboratively and provide constructive feedback to other Vehicle Art colleagues

Skills and Experience

• A beautiful portfolio of Vehicle Art assets, demonstrating a professional level of quality, efficiency, and practicality for real-time game engines.
• High proficiency in 3ds Max.
• A high proficiency in other 3D software, e.g., Maya, Blender, etc. is acceptable, paired with the desire/openness to learn 3ds Max.
• A passion for military hardware and simulation games is greatly appreciated.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• A passion for military hardware and simulation games is greatly appreciated.
• Previous professional experience in games or simulation.
• A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (e.g., Game Art).
• Proficiency in other 3D software for high-poly modelling (e.g., ZBrush)
• Experience working with international teams.

Our Culture

Metrea’s single core value, “rooted in humility,” is supported by four key attributes: entrepreneurial, systematic, discerning, and over-deliver. These attributes, combined, form our Teammate Firmware, our culture. We explore these attributes during the hiring process when we grow our teams and continually support the growth of our culture. We are a hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical organization united by a passion for what we do, how we do it, who we do it with, and who we do it for.

Benefits

MAM UK

Private Medical Insurance

Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub

Electric Car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrificed pension scheme

Free lunch on office days

Enhanced Parental Leave

Sweden

Friskvård of 5K annually

Personal development budget (2K for books, courses, subscriptions etc)

Parental leave

5% occupational pension (swe. tjänstepension), 

30 days of leave

Discretionary Bonus

Poland

Private Medical Care

MultiSport sport card

English lessons

Personal development allowance

Optional PPK scheme

Discretionary bonus

26 days PTO

Right to Work

The employee will have the legal right to work in the United Kingdom and will be able to produce right to work documentation.

Equal Opportunities Statement
Metrea Management Limited (MAM) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.

Work Location
Hybrid across these locations:

• UK
• Sweden
• Poland
  
  

Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting or remote/hybrid.

Travel
Yearly travel for an in-person all-hands. Occasional travel for reference gathering if/when applicable.