Senior AAA Gameplay Animator (Hybrid)

Electronic Arts (EA); Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Bonus programs

Sick time

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Animator for the Research & Engineering team. This hybrid role is onsite three days a week in Redwood City, CA, with potential locations in Montreal or Vancouver.

You will drive animation pipelines from asset creation to in-engine implementation, balancing visual quality with performance. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in AAA game animation, a strong reel, and deep experience in real-time engines, mentoring, and collaboration with art and design to enhance

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional animation experience in AAA game development.
• Strong demo reel showing high-quality gameplay animation across locomotion, combat, reactions, and character performance.
• Experience with Maya, Blender, ZBrush, Substance 3D, Marvelous Designer, or comparable software.
• Experience working in Unreal, Unity, Frostbite, or another modern engine.
• Experience mentoring animators and leading animation reviews.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality gameplay animation across locomotion, traversal, combat, reactions, interactions, and character performance.
• Establish animation quality bar, movement principles, and production standards, with mentorship and craft direction.
• Partner with Art Direction and Design to define posing, timing, weight, and readability.
• Support playable demos and vertical slices from exploration to in-engine implementation.
• Collaborate with Technical Animation and Engineering on runtime animation systems and scalable workflows.
• Define animation style and motion language to match visual direction and gameplay goals.
• Lead animation reviews across internal and external production to maintain quality standards.

Skills

AAA game development

Animation fundamentals

Mentoring animators

Real-time engine experience

Gameplay readability

Pipelines balance

Tools

Maya

Blender

ZBrush

Substance 3D

Marvelous Designer

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Animator for the Research & Engineering team. This hybrid role is onsite three days a week in Redwood City, CA, with potential locations in Montreal or Vancouver.

You will drive animation pipelines from asset creation to in-engine implementation, balancing visual quality with performance. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in AAA game animation, a strong reel, and deep experience in real-time engines, mentoring, and collaboration with art and design to enhance