Interactive Experience Designer, Unity

Lucid Dream VR

Interactive Experience Designer creating immersive and interactive experiences in Unity at Lucid Dream. Collaborating with creatives to shape games-inspired science communication and storytelling.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeDurham • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Unity

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create polished, design-forward art assets and contribute them to Unity scenes across VR, AR, desktop, mobile, and web-based experiences
Help build, organize, and polish Unity scenes alongside the team
Partner with the Creative Director and fellow artists
Handle the basic interactivity hookups needed to bring your assets to life in a scene
Prototype visual and interactive concepts in Unity
Implement and refine art assets, animations, particle systems, UI elements, and interaction feedback inside Unity
Participate in playtesting, bug fixing, performance optimization, and polish throughout the project lifecycle
Support live deployments by helping troubleshoot visual or interaction issues
Actively explore, evaluate, and pilot new tools, plugins, and pipelines
Help define studio best practices for when and how new tools should be used
Contribute to reusable Unity templates, prefabs, interaction patterns, and production frameworks
Work as a contributing artist on the team
Contribute to project planning by estimating asset needs and flagging production risks early
Troubleshoot visual, animation, and interaction issues in the work you contribute

Requirements

What you’ll need

A portfolio that demonstrates high-quality, client-ready, brand-aligned polish
Game-industry experience is welcome, but a reel built solely around in-game content won't show us what we need
Strong affinity for organization and clean implementation
A strong artistic foundation and a refined eye for design, layout, brand style, and elegance
Comfort with animation fundamentals
Hands-on comfort working in Unity to integrate art assets, build and polish scenes, wire up basic interactions, and optimize for performance and platform constraints
Comfort working with Unity C# scripts
3-5 years demonstrated experience working as part of a collaborative studio or in-house team
Working familiarity with version control for Unity projects
A genuine early-adopter mindset
Strong communication skills
Strong experience with 3D asset creation and animation
Experience with XR development in Unity is a strong plus

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employer-sponsored health, vision, and dental
401(k) Retirement Plan with company match
Responsible Paid Time-Off Policy
Hybrid Work policy
Parental Leave Policy
Monthly team-building events

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Hard Skills & Tools

UnityC#3D asset creationanimationparticle systemsUI elementsinteraction feedbackperformance optimizationprototypingversion control

Soft Skills

organizationcommunicationcollaborationartistic foundationdesign eyeeleganceproblem-solvingcreativityadaptabilityattention to detail