Senior Animation Programmer
- Responsibilities
- Join our animation technology team and work closely with game play teams across game projects.
- Maintain and extend existing animation components of CRYENGINE.
- Take active part in suggestion, prototyping, design & development of new features.
- Pitch your own ideas to improve CRYENGINE‘s animation system.
- Implementing well designed, robust, highly optimal new animation system features, integrating them into our existing animation, physics and AI systems.
- Independently research and develop improvements to continuously push our technology forward.
- Set development goals as part of a passionate team to shape the future of animation in games.
- Strong passion for VR and its potential as a new medium.
- Requirements
- 5+ years of professional game development or similar programming experience.
- At least a Bachelor’s degree in relevant field or equivalent work experience.
- Experience in creating animation technologies and integrating them for use in game development.
- Fluency in C++, strong software engineering and debugging skills.
- Experience with software profiling tools and performance optimization techniques.
- Experience with designing multi-threaded software architecture.
- Experience with cross platform engines preferably experience with CRYENGINE.
- Strong mathematical background.
- Excellent English communication and writing skills.
- Pluses
- Experience with console programming.
- Experience working on game asset pipelines and tools.
- Experience with Maya or similar DCC tools.
- Experience with motion capture systems.
- Passion for making games.
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