Job Description

We are seeking a talented, motivated, and experienced SENIOR ANIMATION ENGINEER who shares our values:

• We take responsibility for delivering our work
• We collaborate constantly, helping each other to be successful
• We continuously improve our knowledge, workflows and processes
• We communicate openly, calling out issues, opportunities, and sharing feedback
• We have integrity, maintain confidentiality, and share a sense of ownership in our success
• We have passion for the game, our players, quality work, and technology

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build optimized, sustainable and maintainable technologies to help solve game driven animation problems
• Implement tools and pipelines integrating with game systems for the rapid creation and iteration of animation content
• Work closely with designers, artists, and other engineers to ensure a great player experience
• Work with the animators and technical artists to support their needs and ensure a powerful and easy workflow
• Build Facial Syncing Systems for next-generation animation and story telling.

REQUIREMENTS

• Advanced C++ programming, blueprint, and scripting languages.
• 5+ years' experience in game programming, including experience working on at least one AAA shipped title
• Experience with Unreal Engine 4
• Comfortable defining how animations are organized and played back in-game
• Experience with engineering highly optimized networked animation and game systems
• Experience with blend tree systems
• Experience with low-level animation constructs: compression, blending, and posing
• Strong experience with various data structures and algorithms
• Strong mathematics skills including proficiency using trigonometry and linear algebra
• Must be comfortable working within and adding to an established code framework
• Self-motivated and self-directing
• Effective communication skills with developers of all technical skill levels

PLUSES

• Multi-threading and optimization
• Client-server game development
• Game physics
• Wide range of PC hardware and console platforms
• Version control systems: Git, Perforce, or Subversion