Lead Animation Programmer
- Responsibilities
- Lead the animation programming discipline and enable the team to reach their full potential.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, animators, and technical animators to design and implement advanced animation features and tools.
- Work with existing engine code base to architect and enhance animation systems.
- Gather requirements and set goals for the animation team, lead the design and architecture of the code development, and coordinate its implementation.
- Research the latest advancements and techniques in computer animation to create immersive and realistic character animations.
- Proactively drive your team and improve product quality as well as group productivity.
- Delegate effectively while involving team members in the decision-making process.
- Coordinate with other Leads and Directors, including from other projects and studio groups, including different tech, art, design, and production, to achieve project objectives.
- Mentor, guide and role-model for other animation programmers, sharing your knowledge and expertise to enhance the team's capabilities, and overseeing lower-level mentoring in the team.
- Requirements
- 7+ years of programming experience in animation system development, as a Senior or equivalent position.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, relevant field, or equivalent work experience.
- Worked on shipped products, on console or PC.
- Good communication skills and ability to work effectively on shared projects with designers, animators, artists, testers, and other developers.
- Excellent understanding of animation architecture and standard technology (rigging systems, animation state machines, low-level animation systems, physics-based animation, IK systems, procedural animations, simulation, etc.).
- Experience with performance measurement and optimization.
- Excellent understanding of C++ in a game development environment.
- Good 3D math skills.
- Experience with multi-threading.
- Strong software engineering and debugging skills.
- Experience with any game engine.
- Ability to learn and master a large existing code base.
- Ability to learn about new techniques and adapt them to project requirements.
- Pluses
- Previous experience working as an animation programmer within a game engine development environment.
- Experience with multi-threading, motion matching, machine learning, and next-gen animation tech.
- Proficiency in developing game asset pipelines and tools.
- Expertise in procedural animations and simulation.
- Familiarity with content generation tools such as Maya, 3dsMax, etc.
- Knowledge of console programming.
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