Senior Digital 3D Lead — Morrisville, NC

QE7 is seeking to fill a Senior Product Digital 3D Lead position for our client.

Location: Morrisville, NC

Duration: 12+ months, with possibility for PERM

Duties:

• Lead the development of high-fidelity, reusable digital product twins by converting engineering CAD, industrial design, and Color, Material & Finish (CMF) data into production-ready 3D assets.

• Own the end-to-end CAD-to-creative pipeline, including CAD cleanup, tessellation, retopology, mesh optimization, UV mapping, PBR materials, texturing, and asset validation.

• Interpret engineering files and manage complex product assemblies, configurations, SKUs, and variants while preserving accurate geometry and design details.

• Establish standards for 3D geometry, materials, textures, file formats, naming conventions, metadata, version control, and level-of-detail (LOD) requirements.

• Partner with industrial design and engineering teams to ensure digital assets accurately reflect approved product specifications, colors, materials, and finishes.

• Prepare validated assets for CGI, Adobe Firefly, ecommerce, motion graphics, interactive experiences, and AI-enabled creative production.

• Establish quality controls to prevent generative AI workflows from altering critical product characteristics, including geometry, branding, ports, colors, and materials.

• Develop reusable digital masters supporting product imagery, marketing campaigns, ecommerce, animation, product configurators, interactive 3D, and augmented reality experiences.

• Define asset intake requirements, quality assurance processes, governance standards, lifecycle management, and reusable production templates.

• Identify automation opportunities, evaluate emerging technologies, and determine when CAD-derived assets, CGI, generative AI, or hybrid workflows are most appropriate.

• Train creative teams on standards and best practices for using approved digital product assets.

Skills:

• Expertise in product visualization, digital twins, CGI, and CAD-to-3D production workflows.

• Proficiency with CAD tools and formats such as Creo, CATIA, SolidWorks, Siemens NX, STEP, IGES, and Parasolid.

• Experience with professional 3D applications such as Blender, Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, or Unreal Engine.

• Knowledge of Adobe Substance 3D, PBR materials, CMF specifications, and photorealistic rendering.

• Familiarity with Adobe Firefly, Photoshop, Illustrator, and other Creative Cloud applications.

• Understanding of modern 3D interchange formats, including USD/OpenUSD, glTF/GLB, and FBX.

• Knowledge of digital asset management (DAM), product information management (PIM), metadata, and version control.

• Scripting and workflow automation skills, particularly Python or application-specific scripting, are highly desirable.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Experience:

• Approximately 7+ years of experience in product visualization, digital twins, CGI, industrial design visualization, or related 3D production.

• Demonstrated experience converting engineering-grade CAD into accurate, optimized, production-ready 3D assets, including complex assemblies and product variants.

• Strong understanding of geometry, tessellation, retopology, UV mapping, texturing, materials, lighting, rendering, and technical optimization.

• Proven ability to translate CMF specifications into photorealistic digital materials and maintain product accuracy throughout creative production.

• Experience building scalable, repeatable 3D production pipelines and collaborating with engineering, industrial design, and creative teams.

• Consumer electronics, automotive, or high-end industrial product visualization experience is highly desirable.

• Experience with AI-enabled creative production, Adobe Firefly, ecommerce 3D, digital configurators, augmented reality, or real-time product experiences is preferred.

• Background in workflow automation, asset governance, and lifecycle management is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in 3D Design, Industrial Design, Computer Graphics, Digital Media, Engineering, or a related field preferred.

• Equivalent professional experience and demonstrated expertise in CAD-to-3D workflows and digital asset production will also be considered.