Are you hard working and passionate about what you do? Are you flexible to handle many environments and tasks? Do you constantly look for how to improve your skills; soaking up knowledge and applying it? Are you a self-starter, motivated to do an incredible job given any task?

If so, then send us information about your background and experience and how you'd love to be involved in what we do. We'd love to hear from you at recruiting@electricsheepcompany.com!

ESC is a well-funded early stage company. Benefits include stock options, health, dental, 401K, modest cell phone reimbursement and 3 weeks vacation.

At present, The Electric Sheep Company is particularly interested in retaining people for the following positions:

You've held a senior artist or director position responsible overseeing a team of artists across multiple projects. You've been a freelancer and know what it's like to work for an on-staff art director. You are a gamer and have accounts on multiple virtual worlds and social networking sites. You are ready to invest a substantial portion of your time and attention building a startup business.

Responsibilities:

• Set and direct visual standards and ensure visual quality across key projects
• Create concept sketches of virtual environments, architecture, avatars, and objects in a variety of styles appropriate to multiple ages
• Execute detailed layout mock-ups for 2D and 3D virtual environments, architecture, avatars, and object design using a variety of tools, methods, and styles
• Create concept designs, wireframes, and production-ready art for game and virtual world user interfaces and web pages
• Present work internally and externally to clients
• Collaborate with Technical Director to maintain technical guidelines
• Work with our Producer team to ensure that art pipeline process is efficient and conducive to meeting deadlines

Capabilities:

• Minimum 6-7 years art experience with a focus on web, game, and/or interactive design
• 2-3 years of art director experience
• Virtual world (or other 3D) design and implementation experience desirable
• Experience with large-scale new media productions
• Proven experience communicating effectively with major clients
• Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalent
• Experience creating art assets for Flash projects
• Experience in Maya, 3DMax or equivalent preferred

Samples:

Please send samples of your work including concept sketches, mock-ups, 3D environments, characters, graphic design, fine art, machinima, live sites, Flash.

We are looking for experienced software engineers to create compelling 2D, 2.5D, and 3D virtual worlds and multi-player games. You will:

• Develop web-embedded virtual world front-ends
• Contribute to multi-player server development as needed
• Make code contributions to open source projects as appropriate
• Stay current on the latest developments in virtual world platforms and social technology

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or related or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software real-world development experience
• Experience with network architectures/protocols and asynchronous programming and I/O
• Low-level programming experience (manipulating bits and bytes directly)
• Good grasp of 3D programming and related concepts (3D geometry, texture mapping, matrices, etc.)
• Good grasp of multi-player gaming and related concepts (physics, animation, AI/NPCs, etc.)
• Comfortable working in a highly distributed, agile team environment

Bonus points:

• Flash/AS3
• C#/Mono, Java, and/or C++
• Development, design, and consumption of web services
• Specific game engine or game engine components (e.g. Torque, Unity3D, jMonkeyEngine, ODE, Ogre, etc.)
• Specific virtual world experience
• Prior contributions to open source projects
• Agile development experience