Senior Unity Animation Engineer — Remote, R&D Ownership

Beffio Studio; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Flexible contract options

Competitive compensation

Annual Beffio team retreats

Job summary

Beffio Studio is seeking a Senior Animation Engineer to advance animation runtime systems in Unity3D for a major project. You will work across Animation, Technical Art, and Engineering teams to ship production-ready features, from prototypes to stable tools and pipelines.

Your focus includes state machines, blend trees, root motion, and data-oriented approaches using ECS/DOTS, Burst, and baking workflows, while optimizing for mobile performance and GPU skinning.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with C# and Unity in production animation systems.
• Deep knowledge of ECS/DOTS, Burst, Jobs, and baking workflows.
• Strong understanding of animation runtimes and compression techniques.
• Experience with GPU skinning, shaders, and performance profiling.
• Shader development using HLSL and node-based tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize animation runtime systems in Unity.
• Work with state machines, blend trees, layers, and root motion.
• Create data-oriented animation solutions using ECS/DOTS and baking.
• Explore GPU skinning, deformation, and compute shaders.
• Build Unity editor tools and production workflows for animation teams.
• Collaborate with Animators, Technical Artists, and Engineers.

Skills

C#

Unity

ECS/DOTS

Animation runtimes

GPU skinning

Shader programming

Rigging pipelines

Unity editor tooling

Mobile optimisation

Communication

Tools

Maya

Blender

Shader Graph

Amplify

Job description

Beffio Studio is seeking a Senior Animation Engineer to advance animation runtime systems in Unity3D for a major project. You will work across Animation, Technical Art, and Engineering teams to ship production-ready features, from prototypes to stable tools and pipelines.

Your focus includes state machines, blend trees, root motion, and data-oriented approaches using ECS/DOTS, Burst, and baking workflows, while optimizing for mobile performance and GPU skinning.