Job Description NBCUniversal is seeking a Principal Vegetation Artist to own and drive the quality, systems, and visual consistency of vegetation for an ambitious interactive entertainment experience.

This roleis responsible fordefining high-quality standards across trees, plants, and ecosystems, while ensuring that vegetation content supports realism, artistic cohesion, and scalable world building.

Reporting to the Lead Artist (Environment), the Principal Vegetation Artist will work closely with Environment, Procedural, Technical Art, and cross-disciplinary teams to ensure vegetation systems support artistic direction, production goals, and technical constraints.

The role involves acting as an expert authority for vegetation creation and implementation, driving innovation, guiding workflows, and supporting scalable ecosystem solutions across large environments.

Responsibilities Define andmaintainvegetation quality standards across trees, plants, ground cover, and ecosystem content.

Drive the creation and implementation of vegetation systems that support realism, variety, and artistic cohesion.

Act as an expert authority forassetsvegetation workflows, eco-system logic, and content scalability.

Collaborate closely with Procedural, Environment, Tech Art,Houdiniand Lighting teams to ensure proper integration.

Support the design and evolution of vegetationassetspipelines, tools, and best practices.

Ensure vegetation assets and systems meet artistic, technical, and performance requirements.

Contribute to scalable world-building strategies from high-end to mobile targets.

Guide vegetation direction across biomes, neighborhoods, and environmental storytelling needs.

Review andvalidatevegetation content to ensure consistency, quality, and implementation standards.

Maintain visibility on quality, risks, and production challenges across vegetation systems and content. RSUM DU POSTE NBCUniversal est la recherche dune personne pour occuper le poste dArtiste principal.e en vgtation afin dassurer la responsabilit et lorientation de la qualit, des systmes et de la cohrence visuelle de la vgtation pour une ambitieuse exprience de divertissement interactif.

Ce rle est responsable de dfinir des normes de haute qualit pour les arbres, les plantes et les cosystmes, tout en veillant ce que le contenu vgtal soutienne le ralisme, la cohsion artistique et la cration dunivers volutifs.

Relevant de lArtiste Lead (Environnement), la personne occupant le poste dArtiste principal.e en vgtation travaillera en troite collaboration avec les quipes dEnvironnement, de Gnration procdurale, dArt technique et dautres disciplines afin de sassurer que les systmes de vgtation soutiennent la direction artistique, les objectifs de production et les contraintes techniques.

Le rle consiste agir comme personne experte de rfrence pour la cration et limplantation de la vgtation, favoriser linnovation,



guider les flux de travail et soutenir des solutions dcosystmes volutives dans de vastes environnements. RESPONSABILITS Dfinir et maintenir des normes de qualit de la vgtation pour les arbres, les plantes, les couvre-sols et le contenu des cosystmes.

Diriger la cration et limplantation de systmes de vgtation favorisant le ralisme, la diversit et la cohsion artistique.

Agir comme personne experte de rfrence pour les flux de travail lis aux actifs de vgtation, la logique des cosystmes et lvolutivit du contenu.

Collaborer troitement avec les quipes de Gnration procdurale, dEnvironnement, dArt technique, Houdini et dclairage afin dassurer une intgration adquate.

Soutenir la conception et lvolution des pipelines, des outils et des meilleures pratiques lis aux actifs de vgtation.

Veiller ce que les actifs et les systmes de vgtation rpondent aux exigences artistiques, techniques et de performance.

Contribuer des stratgies volutives de cration dunivers adaptes aux plateformes allant du haut de gamme au mobile.

Orienter la direction de la vgtation travers diffrents biomes, quartiers et besoins de narration environnementale.

Rviser et valider le contenu vgtal afin dassurer la cohrence, la qualit et le respect des normes dimplantation.

Maintenir une visibilit constante sur la qualit, les risques et les dfis de production lis aux systmes et au contenu de vgtation.

Qualifications Extensive experience in AAA game development with a focus on vegetation,environmentart, or ecosystem creationon at least one published title.

Provenexpertisein creating high-quality vegetation for real-time environmentsusing tools like

Speed

Tree.

Robust portfoliodemonstratingvegetation quality across trees, plants, and natural systems.

Strong understanding of vegetation pipelines, scalability constraints, and real-time performancefor asset creation.

Experience with ecosystem thinking, environmental composition, and world-building support.

Experience collaborating across Environment, Procedural, Technical Art, andproductionteams.

Strong understanding of modern game engines and vegetation implementation workflows.

Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Desired Characteristics Experience building vegetationassets for large-scale or open-world productions.

Familiarity with procedural world-building workflows and systemic ecosystem approaches.

Experience with tools such as Houdini,Speed

Tree, or similar vegetation authoring solutions.





Experience working with Unreal Engine pipelines.

Experience collaborating with outsourcing partners or distributed teams.

Strong artistic sensitivity to realism, biodiversity, and environmental storytelling.

Problem-solving mindset and ability to bridge creative and technical constraints.

Desire to think and explore cutting-edge solutions.

Qualifications de base Exprience significative en dveloppement de jeux AAA avec un focus sur la vgtation, les environnements ou la cration dcosystmessur au moins un titrepublie.

Expertise dmontre dans la cration de vgtation de haute qualit pour des environnements temps relutilisant des outils tels que Speed

Tree.

Portfolio solide dmontrant une forte qualit sur arbres, plantes et systmes naturels.

Bonne comprhension des pipelines de vgtation, des contraintes de scalabilit et des performances en temps relpour lacreationdassetsvegetaux.

Exprience en logique dcosystme, composition environnementale et soutien au world building.

Exprience de collaboration avec les quipes Environnement, Procdural, Tech Art et Production.

Bonne comprhension des moteurs de jeu modernes et des workflows dimplmentation de vgtation.

Excellentes comptences en communication, collaboration et rsolution de problmes.

Atoutssouhaits Exprience dans la cration dassetsvgtatauxpour des productions grande chelle ou open world.

Connaissance des workflows procduraux et des approches systmiques appliques aux cosystmes.

Exprience avec des outils tels que Houdini, Speed

Tree ou autres solutions de cration vgtale.

Exprience avec les pipelines

Unreal

Engine.

Exprience avec partenaires externes ou quipes distribues.

Sensibilit artistique forte au ralisme, la biodiversit et au storytelling environnemental.

Forte capacit de rsolution de problmes et aptitude faire le lien entre contraintes cratives et techniques.

Desirreelde penser et dexplorer des solutions innovantes.

Additional Information As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal''s policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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