Senior Technical Animator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Execute and set up animation assets and systems directly within Unreal Engine 5.

• Create, manage, and enhance intricate Animation Blueprints and runtime procedural systems, encompassing cloth, IK, and secondary dynamics.

• Adjust, perfect, and troubleshoot Motion Matching and sophisticated locomotion systems.

• Enhance animation assets, runtime systems, and editor frameworks to ensure optimal performance and memory efficiency.

• Identify and resolve technical animation challenges across Maya and the game engine.

• Collaborate with animation and engineering leads to improve authoring pipelines.

• Document tools and processes comprehensively.

• Guide team members on best practices.

• Work in partnership with design, art, engineering, animation, and audio teams to create a premier AAA experience.

• Keep abreast of technological advancements and propose solutions to developmental challenges.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional technical animation experience in the video game industry.

• At least one completed AAA title.

• Extensive practical knowledge of UE5 animation tools such as Animation Blueprints, Control Rigs, Montages, Notifies, and the Rewind Debugger.

• Comprehensive understanding of procedural runtime animation technologies, including Motion Matching, Motion Warping, Control Rigs, Full-Body IK, Retargeting, Ragdoll, and Cloth.

• Strong grasp of human anatomy and kinesiology, encompassing skeletal mechanics, deformation rigs, and realistic performance.

• Clear comprehension of traditional animation principles and their application within real-time gameplay limitations.

• Professional proficiency in both French and English for candidates based in Quebec.

• English proficiency is necessary for collaboration with U.S. teams, international partners, and for specialized technical documentation.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Proven experience in cross-disciplinary teamwork.

• Ability to perform effectively under pressure, ambiguity, and shifting priorities.

• Capacity to build trust-based relationships and navigate organizational complexities.

• Skill in producing quality revisions based on feedback.

• Capability to drive work independently with attention to detail and organization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer dedicated to offering reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application process, interviews, job performance, and access to employment benefits and privileges.