Senior Real-Time Animation Engineer

Level; Austin (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Level is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Animation to build the systems that make characters move with personality, environments react believably, and players connect emotionally with our digital worlds. You’ll own animation system architecture and runtime optimization, work with skeletal animation, inverse kinematics and blending, and push performance for animation-heavy scenes.

You’ll collaborate with animators and technical artists to deliver believable characters and dynamic

Qualifications

• 5+ years of real-time animation system development.
• Deep C++ experience.
• Experience with skeletal animation, IK, and blending.
• Understanding animation maths and interpolation algorithms.
• Performance optimization for animation-heavy scenes.
• Collaborates with animators and technical artists.

Responsibilities

• Animation system architecture and runtime optimization.
• Skeletal animation, blending, and state machines.
• Physics-based animation and procedural systems.
• Animation compression and streaming.
• Tool integration for animation workflows.

Skills

C++

Animation systems

Skeletal animation

IK

Blending

Interpolation

Performance optimization

Collaborative work

Character animation

Tools

Godot

Motion capture

Animation pipelines

Rigging tools

Job description

Level is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Animation to build the systems that make characters move with personality, environments react believably, and players connect emotionally with our digital worlds. You’ll own animation system architecture and runtime optimization, work with skeletal animation, inverse kinematics and blending, and push performance for animation-heavy scenes.

You’ll collaborate with animators and technical artists to deliver believable characters and dynamic