IKEA

3D Platform Engineer | Range Operations

IKEA
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11 hours ago
Malmö, SwedenSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, operate, and lifecycle-manage reusable 3D platform services and applications.
  • Translate business and user needs into technical designs, working software, and development briefs.
  • Build automated CAD-to-mesh pipelines that preserve product structure, metadata, geometry, materials, and instancing.
  • Develop and validate workflows for mesh repair, tessellation, simplification, LOD generation, and optimized asset delivery.
  • Evaluate architectures, tools, workflows, commercial technologies, open-source technologies, CAD SDKs, geometry SDKs, and mesh-processing libraries.
  • Integrate shared 3D capabilities into planning, content, and product-development workflows.
  • Provide technical direction for core 3D solutions and guide internal teams, partners, suppliers, and platform consumers.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of computer graphics, real-time and offline rendering, and production-ready 3D asset pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience developing software products for 3D, computer graphics, or VFX workflows.
  • Knowledge of product-development workflows using CAD tools such as Revit, SolidWorks, or CATIA.
  • Understanding of asset creation, materials, texturing, lighting, rigging, and scene composition.
  • Platform and DevOps experience building, operating, and improving business-critical services in an agile environment.
  • Degree in computer science, media technology, digital media, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Strong C++ skills, including native SDK integration, performance profiling, debugging, and maintainable adapters for third-party libraries.
  • Practical knowledge of CAD data, assembly structures, exact geometry, tessellation, and conversion to polygonal meshes in a PLM or PDM context.
  • Experience with mesh repair, topology, normals, tangents, UVs, materials, instancing, simplification, and automated LOD generation.
  • Experience with OpenUSD, MaterialX, glTF, enterprise PLM or PDM platforms, CAD translation, geometry SDKs, or mesh-processing libraries is a plus.

Benefits

  • Full-time position located in Malmö (Hyllie), with the majority of work expected in the workplace.
  • Benefits supporting health, wellbeing, development, and career growth.
  • Inclusive, collaborative culture with opportunities to work across roles, departments, and global teams.
  • Applications are requested by 15 October.

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About IKEA

10,000+ employees

IKEA designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, home furnishings, and housewares to consumers through large-format stores and e-commerce. Founded in Sweden in 1943 and headquartered in Delft, Netherlands, the brand operates via a global franchise system run by Inter IKEA Systems B.V., and also develops smart-home products and services under Home Smart.

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