Job Title: Senior 3D Application and Experience Engineer
Location: Remote US OR Canada (East Coast Canada (Toronto, Montreal, New Brunswick)
About Centric Software:
Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.
From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility. www.centricsoftware.com
Job Summary:
We’re hiring a Senior 3D Applications Engineer to lead the development of immersive, web-based 3D tools for product visualization and configuration. This role is entirely front-end focused, with an emphasis on building performant, intuitive 3D viewer experiences using React, TypeScript, and Three.js. You’ll help shape the future of enterprise PLM workflows by designing dynamic, collaborative interfaces that replace static 2D design tools.
Key Responsibilities
3D Viewer Development
- Build modular, scalable 3D web applications using React, TypeScript, Three.js, and MobX
- Implement camera controls, lighting presets, annotations, and snapshot generation
- Optimize rendering performance for large assets and complex scenes
- Design reusable UI components and interaction patterns for 3D environments
Asset Pipeline Integration
- Ingest and render GLB/GLTF assets with support for PBR textures, material variants, and avatars
- Use client-side tools like JSZip, FBXLoader, and gltf-transform for asset optimization
UI/UX Enhancements
- Collaborate with design and product teams to improve viewer usability and interactivity
- Develop configuration layers for colorways, trims, and materials mapped to PLM data
- Contribute to roadmap features like environment presets, variant-aware commenting, and snapshot templates
Debugging & Performance
- Use browser-based tools like WebGL Inspector and Spector.js to profile and refine rendering
- Ensure high responsiveness and visual fidelity across devices and browser
Experience
- 5+ years of front-end development with React and TypeScript
- 2+ years building production-grade 3D applications with Three.js
- Background in gaming, fashion tech, interactive marketing, or 3D startups is a plus
Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of rendering pipelines, shaders, and custom materials
- Expertise in GLTF/GLB formats, UV mapping, texture atlases, and PBR workflows
- Familiarity with authoring tools like Blender, CLO3D, or 3ds Max
Nice to Have
- Experience with multi-product 3D configurators
- Familiarity with WebGPU, WASM, or client-side physics simulations
- Exposure to avatar APIs (e.g., Alvanon, Scanatic).
- Understanding of PLM systems and data-driven configuration workflow
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
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What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.
