Remote Senior Animation Engineer - Unity R&D

Jobgether SRL; Italia; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Flexible contract options

Annual team retreats

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Jobgether SRL, listing on behalf of a partner, seeks a Senior Animation Engineer based in Italy for a major Unity3D game project. You will own animation runtime systems and drive R&D from prototyping to production-ready features, collaborating with Animators, Technical Artists, Gameplay and Rendering Engineers.

The role focuses on ECS/DOTS, GPU skinning, shaders, deformation, and performance optimization, with opportunities to influence workflows, tooling, architecture, and technical standards

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with C# and Unity engineering.
• Hands-on experience with ECS/DOTS (Entities, Burst, Jobs) or deep data-oriented engine architecture.
• Strong understanding of animation runtimes (state machines, blend trees, layers, root motion, compression).
• Practical experience with GPU skinning and deformation using shaders and buffers (compute/vertex).
• Shader development using HLSL and node-based tools (Shader Graph, Amplify).
• Solid understanding of character rigs, FBX pipelines with Maya/Blender.
• Experience creating Unity Editor tooling (post-processors, validators, custom inspectors).
• Experience profiling and optimizing graphics on mobile (Adreno, Mali).
• Familiarity with GLES and Vulkan.
• Fluent English with strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

C#

Unity

ECS/DOTS

GPU skinning

Shaders

FBX workflows

Editor tooling

Mobile optimization

GLES/Vulkan

English communication

DOTS frameworks

Netcode for Entities

Procedural animation

Facial animation

Tools

Maya

Blender

Job description

Jobgether SRL, listing on behalf of a partner, seeks a Senior Animation Engineer based in Italy for a major Unity3D game project. You will own animation runtime systems and drive R&D from prototyping to production-ready features, collaborating with Animators, Technical Artists, Gameplay and Rendering Engineers.

The role focuses on ECS/DOTS, GPU skinning, shaders, deformation, and performance optimization, with opportunities to influence workflows, tooling, architecture, and technical standards