Lead Animation Engineer Real-Time Character Fidelity Remote

Activision; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and vacation

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Activision's Central Animation Technology Group is seeking a Principal Animation Engineer to drive next-generation character movement and believability across AAA games. The role supports remote work eligibility with options to be based in the United States or Europe.

You will lead cross-studio collaboration and innovate animation systems, workflows, and features for dynamic player experiences. Expect to collaborate with animators and engineers worldwide, tackle complex optimization challenges,

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional programming experience with a focus on skeletal animation.
• Proficiency in C/C++ in multithreaded environments.
• Passion for advancing high-fidelity interactive animation in AAA games.
• Strong 3D math and linear algebra.
• Experience working directly on low-level game animation systems.
• Good knowledge of animation topics such as inverse kinematics, blend trees, ragdolls, state machines and secondary motion techniques.
• Capable and eager to take a leading role on projects.
• Multitasking: ability to work on multiple tech threads with different teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with animators and other engineers to research, design, prototype, and implement new features to continuously improve our character fidelity and believability at ever increasing scale and complexity.
• Develop and upgrade workflows to allow the efficient building, improvement and debugging of animation behaviors by animators and engineers alike.
• Support and proactively collaborate with team members at Activision studios across the world.

Skills

Skeletal animation

C/C++

3D math

Animation systems

Leadership

Multitasking

Inverse kinematics

Blend trees

Tools

Maya

Job description

Activision's Central Animation Technology Group is seeking a Principal Animation Engineer to drive next-generation character movement and believability across AAA games. The role supports remote work eligibility with options to be based in the United States or Europe.

You will lead cross-studio collaboration and innovate animation systems, workflows, and features for dynamic player experiences. Expect to collaborate with animators and engineers worldwide, tackle complex optimization challenges,