3 months ago
Brighton, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Adapt existing animation systems and build new animation technology in Unreal Engine 5.
- Prototype and implement animation graphs, state machines, blending, layering, and other runtime animation systems.
- Build and maintain animation tools and pipelines for animators and technical artists.
- Collaborate with animation, art, design, and engineering teams to deliver believable character animation.
- Estimate animation feature development and check dependencies during planning.
- Identify technical risks and obstacles and develop solutions.
- Research coding techniques, algorithms, and animation technology developments.
Requirements
- Demonstrable programming experience in a creative environment.
- Shipped one or more AAA game titles, ideally using Unreal Engine.
- Advanced proficiency in C++, linear algebra, and 3D mathematics, with strong familiarity with object-oriented design principles.
- Strong experience with Unreal Engine, Blueprints, Animation Blueprints, state machines, blend spaces, linked layers, and Unreal animation principles.
- Hands-on experience with inverse kinematics, ragdoll and physics-based character animation, procedural animation, keyframe animation, or forward kinematics.
- Strong commitment to code quality and documentation, ability to learn new technologies, and ability to work independently under deadlines.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills across multidisciplinary teams.
- Highly desirable: machine-learning-driven animation experience such as motion matching or learned pose generation.
- Highly desirable: experience with Control Rig, IK Rig, Motion Warping, Mass locomotion, Mover, UAF, or AnimNext.
- Highly desirable: familiarity with data-oriented design principles.
- Highly desirable: hands-on development experience for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.
Benefits
- Permanent position.
- Locations include Brighton, Brno, and Prague, with Brighton preferred.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated.
Tech Stack
Categories
Gaming
About 2K
2K develops and publishes video games for console, PC, and mobile players, selling premium titles and live-service content across major franchises. Its portfolio includes NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Sid Meier’s Civilization, XCOM, WWE 2K, and PGA TOUR 2K, built by in-house and partner studios. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Novato, California, 2K is a publishing label wholly owned by Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO).