Senior Animation Engineer

The Senior Animation Engineer will focus on Narrative Realization working with animators, writers, engineers and designers to deliver extraordinary experiences. Grounded, believable animations are pivotal to our game, and in this role, you will help build cutting edge technology empowering us to deliver a moving, impactful narrative, and fostering players’ emotional connections with our characters. Responsibilities include architecting, implementing, and maintaining the selection, integration, and manipulation of AAA quality gameplay and AI animations that reflect the narrative design goals, integrating narrative seamlessly into gameplay, and enhance the emotional impact of that narrative. Ensuring that narrative realization animation solutions leverage high quality character assets to their fullest potential. Ensuring that AI systems can deliver high quality animation performances that express narrative needs. Working with the production team, narrative realization leadership and engineering leadership to schedule those plans. Collaborating with animators, writers, designers, and engineers to provide holistic solutions. Owning features and systems, driving them to meet the needs of those holistic solutions. Analyzing different approaches to solving problems and the tradeoffs between them. Writing and maintaining documentation related to features, tools, and workflows.