ENGINEERING - GAMES

What We Do

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What You’ll Do

Epic Games is searching for a highly experienced Senior or Lead Technical Designer in Animation to join our team working on Fortnite. As a Technical Designer in Animation, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create animation systems that facilitate realistic and high quality motion. Working with animation, design, and engineering colleagues, you will develop new tools and/or refine existing ones to ensure the animation/behavior pipeline operates smoothly and efficiently. You will also help identify potential issues and deploy correct solutions, using your technical knowledge to help bridge and facilitate communication between the animation team and other departments, such as engineering and design.

In This Role You Will

• Facilitate the creation of animation behavior tools/techniques/philosophies that allow the building of complex movement systems in a manner accessible by content creators
• Design and implement animation state machines/behaviors and runtime solutions
• Look for opportunities to improve the animation pipeline/workflow and help provide solutions for technical animation problems, including performing training and creating documentation for the animation team
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and solve in-game animation implementation issues and animation-related technical challenges
• Closely collaborate with the animation leadership to maintain the style and quality bar for animations in the game

What We’re Looking For

• A strong animation sense and a clear understanding of character motion and how to achieve it with modern animation methods
• A good understanding of the animation pipeline, including source content creation tools such as Maya and the export process into a game engine
• Knowledge of how to combine animations to create good-looking motion
• At least 10 years of experience with AAA game development in a similar role, preferably on a large team using an established game engine (internal or commercial); experience with Unreal Engine is a plus
• Familiarity with modern animation behavior tools and concepts, such as blend trees and state machines; experience with Unreal Engine Animation Blueprints is a plus
• Good communication and collaboration skills, especially with team members from other disciplines; leadership skills and experience leading a team is a plus
• User-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.