Senior Animation Programmer
Job Summary
- Researching developing maintaining and improving gameplay and cinematic animation systems while maintaining robust flexibility for use by AI designers and animators
- Taking ownership of gameplay and cinematic animation features from content creation tools to the engine runtime
- Collaborating with programmers designers and artists - gathering requirements helping troubleshoot problems and improving animation workflow efficiency
- Working closely with animation leads and animation director to raise the quality bar for animations in the game
- Profiling identifying and eliminating bottlenecks in complex data processing pipelines and tools (performance memory network IO)
- Creating documentation for the gameplay and cinematic teams
- Staying up-to-date on animation technology trends and new developments.
Qualifications :
- Minimum five years of professional programming experience
- Expertise in C/C
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Experience with multi-threaded and allocator-aware programming
- Experience with memory and performance optimization
- Experience with animation graphs blend trees and state machines (Unreal Havok Animation Morpheme or similar)
- Solid understanding of 3D maths and linear algebra
- Proficiency in algorithm design; understanding of complexity and software architecture and design
- Ability to write clean maintainable and extensible code with attention to reusability
- Great communication skills enthusiasm and initiative
- Very good command of English.
Nice to have:
- Experience working on at least one shipped multiplayer title
- Familiarity with various animation technologies such as compression motion synthesis ragdoll physics IK etc.
- UX and tool creation experience
- Console programming experience
- Maya/Motion Builder or other digital content creation tools experience
- Python experience
- Familiarity with animation processing and deployment pipelines.
Additional Information :
What we offer:
- A dedicated Buddy who will support you in your daily tasks.
- A wide array of benefits: private medical care life insurance pro-health campaigns gifts for different occasions.
- An outstanding work atmosphere in a highly-skilled team of professionals with flexible working hours no dress code and full support of the dedicated HR Business Partner.
- Many opportunities for personal development: a dedicated development budget for each employee extra two paid days for training and CSR stable career paths extensive internal and external training and financing of English and Polish language classes.
- State-of-the-art offices filled with chillout zones a fully equipped kitchen a gym (Wrocław office) and a free car park (Warsaw limited amount of space).
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Techland is one of the biggest and best-known Polish game developers with studios in Wroclaw and Warsaw. For over 30 years, we've carried a tradition of providing gamers with unforgettable experiences. We're an international team of over 550 highly-skilled professionals driven by a pa ... View more