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Senior Gameplay Engineer (Animation)

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Senior Gameplay Engineer - RuneScape Dragonwilds

As a Senior Gameplay Engineer focused on animation in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, you will take the lead on animation systems for characters, creatures, and combat, ensuring seamless integration with gameplay. You'll own key systems such as character movement, combat, spellcasting, emotes, and more. You will collaborate with animators, technical artists, and gameplay engineers to enhance animation quality. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining animation systems, building tools and pipelines, and mentoring junior engineers.  You'll also contribute to core gameplay features occasionally.

Location: Cambridge, UK – (Remote available within the UK with team onsite days in the Cambridge office approx. 4 times per year)Are you an experienced Gameplay Engineer who loves working with talented animation teams and creating solutions that help bring the characters and creatures in games to life?As a Senior Gameplay Engineer focused on animation in RuneScape: Dragonwilds, our new open-world survival crafting game currently in early access and being developed in Unreal Engine 5, you’ll take the lead on animation systems that bring characters, creatures, and combat to life.This is a highly impactful role in the team that blends gameplay and animation engineering. You’ll own key systems such as character movement, combat, spellcasting, emotes and more, ensuring seamless integration with gameplay while enhancing animation quality and technical performance. Collaborating closely with animators, technical artists, and gameplay engineers, you’ll shape the player experience through expressive and responsive animation.What you’ll be doing:<ul> <li>Design, implement and maintain animation systems across the game—covering character movement, combat, spells, emotes, Ais, IKs, NPCs and more.</li> <li>Build tools and pipelines that support animation workflows, improving efficiency and data quality.</li> <li>Partner with animators and technical animators to define best practices, automate processes, and enable creative iteration.</li> <li>Write clear, maintainable and portable C++ code that aligns with engineering standards and gameplay requirements.</li> <li>Support gameplay engineers by writing clean interfaces they can plug into and coordinating with them on architectural design.</li> <li>Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, architecture discussions, and knowledge sharing.</li> <li>Proactively identify risks and opportunities within the animation space, proposing technical strategies and improvements.</li> <li>Occasionally contribute to core gameplay features, offering flexibility and cross-discipline collaboration.</li> <li>Support the engineering team with recruitment and hiring.</li> </ul>What we’re looking for:<ul> <li>Excellent experience in animation programming, with a passion to become the team’s subject matter expert.</li> <li>Proven background implementing complex gameplay and animation features in multiplayer games.</li> <li>Strong understanding of game design principles and a genuine passion for gaming.</li> <li>Advanced C++ knowledge, with the ability to apply principles across additional languages such as C# or Python.</li> </ul><ul><li>Knowledgeable in profiling and optimising code.&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Ability to design complex systems using appropriate patterns, solving architectural and system-level problems.&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Good knowledge of source code repository usage (perforce).&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Capacity to mentor others and contributing to the team continuous improvement by sharing and refining best practices.&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>At ease with independence, allowing one to co-organise own strike team and allocate resources intelligently.&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Excellent communication skills and sociability, enabling efficient remote work environment.&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Experience in UE4 or UE5 C++.&nbsp;</li></ul><ul><li>Familiarity with animation pipelines involving Maya or similar 3D tools.</li></ul>&nbsp;What we offer:When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks &amp; Benefits package including:<ul> <li>Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.</li> <li>Minimum 6% Pension contributions.</li> <li>Employee Assistance Programme &amp; onsite Counselling.</li> <li>Life Insurance.</li> <li>Discretionary annual performance bonus.</li> <li>Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.</li> <li>Flexible working hours.</li> <li>25 days annual leave + Bank holidays &amp; the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!</li> </ul>&nbsp;About Jagex:Jagex is a leader in developing and publishing deep, engaging online games that connect millions of players worldwide. Best known for the RuneScape franchise, which includes two of the world’s longest running and most successful MMORPGs, in Old School Runescape and Runescape, and the open-world survival crafting game, Runescape: Dragonwilds; we have proven success in delivering immersive Forever Games and fostering strong player communities.We strive to foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating forever games. Our values guide everything we do:&nbsp;We Embrace Fellowship&nbsp;by collaborating and sharing openly.&nbsp;We Hone our Craft&nbsp;by always learning and improving; we Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; we are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team &amp; player needs, and we Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.With over two decades of experience, and over 400 people in our team, we continue to innovate in live game development, leveraging data-driven insights, and a commitment to player-first game design. We have a diverse and talented team where creativity, collaboration, and community-driven game development drives everything we do.As part of Jagex, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a globally successful franchise, contribute to exciting new projects, and be part of a company that hugely values both our employees and our players.

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Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in history. Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before.

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<h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Company Description</h2>Our MissionAt Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.Who We AreWe take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!<h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Job Description</h2>Your CareerAs a Principal Consultant in Unit 42 the individual will be responsible for managing incident response engagements with our largest clients and in our most complex engagements. 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The role requires in-depth cybersecurity expertise to enable serving as an incident commander throughout the incident response lifecycle.While actively involved in incident response service delivery, this person also works with peers and the executive team to enhance Unit 42’s incident response practice, including developing and improving the technical and operating methodologies employed during incident response engagements.We are seeking an individual who is dedicated to delivering highly technical consulting services to an exceptional standard, thrives in a fast paced team environment, and advocates for innovative approaches to deliver the best outcomes for our cross-sector clients.Your Impact<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead the team delivering high-profile, high-stakes enterprise level incident response engagements</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Provide hands-on, expert-level incident response services to clients 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