Remote Senior Unity Animation Engineer: ECS & GPU Skinning

Jobgether SRL; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Flexible contract options by location

Annual team retreats

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Animation Engineer based in Ireland for a major Unity3D game project.

You will own animation runtime systems and drive R&D from prototypes to production-ready features, collaborating across Animation, Technical Art, and Engineering. You will design data-oriented animation solutions with ECS/DOTS, GPU skinning, and shader work, while building editor tools and production workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with C# and Unity engineering.
• Hands-on experience with ECS/DOTS, including Entities, Burst, Jobs, and baking.
• Strong understanding of animation runtimes (state machines, blend trees, layers, root motion).
• Practical experience with GPU skinning and deformation techniques.
• Shader development with HLSL and node-based tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize animation runtime systems in Unity (state machines, blend trees, layers, root motion, compression).
• Design and integrate data-oriented animation solutions using ECS/DOTS, Entities, Jobs, Burst, and baking workflows.
• Research and implement advanced animation technologies (GPU skinning, deformation, shaders, vertex animation).
• Build Unity Editor tools, validators, asset processors, custom workflows, production utilities.
• Support rigging, skinning, and FBX workflows between DCC tools and Unity.
• Profile and optimize animation systems for mobile hardware (Adreno, Mali).
• Collaborate with Animators, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, Rendering Engineers.
• Lead technical investigations from prototypes to production-ready features.
• Establish documentation, reusable workflows, technical standards, and scalable systems.
• Balance animation quality with runtime performance and system complexity.

Skills

C#

Unity

ECS/DOTS

Shaders

GPU skinning

Animation runtime

Editor tooling

FBX workflows

Performance profiling

Communication

Tools

Shader Graph

HLSL

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Animation Engineer based in Ireland for a major Unity3D game project.

You will own animation runtime systems and drive R&D from prototypes to production-ready features, collaborating across Animation, Technical Art, and Engineering. You will design data-oriented animation solutions with ECS/DOTS, GPU skinning, and shader work, while building editor tools and production workflows.