Scientific Content Modeler and Producer

Description

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is being built in Saudi Arabia as an international, graduate-level research university dedicated to inspiring a new age of scientific achievement in the Kingdom, the region, and beyond. As an independent, merit-based institution, KAUST will enable top researchers from around the globe and across all cultures to work together to solve challenging scientific and technological issues. Secured with a multibillion dollar endowment and an independent international Board of Trustees, KAUST will partner with the world’s leading universities, research institutions, and the private sector to become a major new contributor to the global network of collaborative research. The environmentally sensitive campus, located on 3,200 acres on the Red Sea at Thuwal, is set to open in September 2009.

KAUST has recently partnered with the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to build and conduct joint research on the world’s most advanced visualization laboratory known as Cornea. Cornea will host the world’s highest resolution and brightest VL6 Virtual Environment featuring a 100 million pixel system that will provide pure 20/20 visual acuity in a fully three-dimensional environment for KAUST researchers, students, and partners.

Job Description: Produce scientific digital 2D/3D content in a variety of formats from multiple scientific sources for dissemination via the web and interactive collaborative environments.

Job Duties:
• Work collaboratively with a team of visualization and computer graphics developers to generate visualization solutions for campus scientists in a variety of scientific domains.
• Design and implement new visual solutions to specific scientific problems that create new innovative ways of explaining scientific materials to a variety of audiences.
• Create animated digital content in both 3D and 2D using a variety of existing commercial software packages as well as in-house packages.
• Create interactive digital content utilizing a variety of interactive software packages including game engines, vis-packages and web based interactive engines.