Remote Senior Animation Engineer - Unity

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Competitive compensation

Annual team retreats

Flexible contracting options

Job summary

Lever, Inc. in the Netherlands seeks a Senior Animation Engineer to own animation runtime systems in Unity, including state machines, blend trees, and root motion, while shaping data-oriented workflows for production-scale projects.

You will drive GPU skinning, shader-driven deformation, and editor tooling, collaborating with Animators, Technical Artists, and Engineers to deliver robust features for mobile and desktop platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with C# and Unity.
• Hands-on ECS/DOTS or data-oriented engine architecture experience.
• Deep understanding of animation runtimes: state machines, blend trees, layers, root motion, compression.
• Practical experience with GPU skinning and deformation using shaders, compute shaders, or vertex shaders.
• Shader development using HLSL and a node-based tool (Shader Graph / Amplify).
• Solid understanding of rigs, skeletons, skinning, and FBX pipelines (Maya/Blender).
• Experience building Unity Editor tooling: postprocessors, validators, inspectors, editor windows.
• Experience profiling and optimizing graphics/animation on mobile (Adreno, Mali).
• Fluent English and strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize animation runtime systems in Unity.
• Implement data-oriented animation via ECS/DOTS, Entities, Burst, and baking workflows.
• Research and implement advanced animation tech including GPU skinning, deformations, and shaders.
• Build Unity Editor tools and production utilities for automation.
• Support rigging and FBX workflows between Maya/Blender and Unity.
• Profile and optimize animation workloads on mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with Animators, Technical Artists, Gameplay and Rendering Engineers.
• Lead technical investigations from prototypes to production-ready features.
• Document workflows and establish technical standards and reusable solutions.
• Balance quality, performance, and usability in architectural decisions.
• Review and improve existing animation systems.

Skills

C# & Unity

ECS/DOTS

Animation Runtimes

Shader Development

FBX Workflows

Unity Editor Tools

Mobile Performance

Problem Solving

Fluent English

Tools

Maya/Blender

Shader Graph / Amplify

GLES/Vulkan

Netcode for Entities

Rukhanka

Latios Kinemation

Job description

Lever, Inc. in the Netherlands seeks a Senior Animation Engineer to own animation runtime systems in Unity, including state machines, blend trees, and root motion, while shaping data-oriented workflows for production-scale projects.

You will drive GPU skinning, shader-driven deformation, and editor tooling, collaborating with Animators, Technical Artists, and Engineers to deliver robust features for mobile and desktop platforms.