Director Animation Engineering

Job Description:

Your Mission: Our team is seeking a dedicated and passionate Animation Technical Director to help develop animation systems. You will be driving the long term vision and detail the roadmap of the animation system, working with engineers across multiple time zones.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

Push the animation system to the bleeding edge

Drive the vision and roadmap animation systems for the next 5 years and beyond

Be prepared to stand up a team of engineers to help deliver that vision

Working with other engineers, to actively implement the core animation systems

Collaborate with engineering, design and art teams around the globe

Participate in the design, performance and code review process

Player Profile:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Math related field

At least 10 years experience in computer animation or related field

Comfortable with of the state of the art in computer animation

Have shipped at least 1 AAA games

Proficient with code and data optimization

Strong C/C++ skills

Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented programming

Excellent math skills

Good knowledge of CPU and memory architectures

Solid debugging skills including the ability to debug at an assembly-level when necessary

Creative, motivated, focused, passionate

Bonus Points:

At least 2 years of experience as a lead or technical director

Have shipped multiple AAA games

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Experience with shader programming languages

Experience with animation compression and streaming

Confident with writing efficient, clean, readable, portable, and reliable code

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