Senior Animation Engineer - Remote, R&D Focus

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Annual team retreats

Flexible contract options by location

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Senior Animation Engineer based in Ireland to own animation runtime development within a major Unity3D project. You will bridge animation, technical art, and engineering, translating creative needs into scalable technical solutions.

You will work on ECS/DOTS, GPU skinning, shaders, and performance optimization, collaborating with Animators, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers to deliver robust features and tooling.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C# and Unity engine development.
• Experience with ECS/DOTS and data-oriented design.
• Strong understanding of animation runtimes: state machines, blend trees, roots motion.
• Shader development with HLSL and node-based tools.
• Experience in tooling for Unity Editor and production automation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize Unity animation runtime systems.
• Design data-oriented animation solutions using ECS/DOTS, Entities, Jobs, Burst.
• Research and implement GPU skinning, deformation, and shader techniques.
• Build Unity Editor tools and production utilities for animation teams.
• Collaborate with Animators, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers.
• Lead R&D from prototypes to production-ready features.
• Document workflows, establish standards, and improve system usability.

Skills

C#

Unity

ECS/DOTS

Shader development

HLSL/Shader Graph

FBX workflows

Mobile optimization

English communication

Tools

Unity Editor

Maya

Blender

Job description

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Senior Animation Engineer based in Ireland to own animation runtime development within a major Unity3D project. You will bridge animation, technical art, and engineering, translating creative needs into scalable technical solutions.

You will work on ECS/DOTS, GPU skinning, shaders, and performance optimization, collaborating with Animators, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers to deliver robust features and tooling.