Ubisoft's Rainbow Six team is seeking a Machine Learning Programmer to revolutionize its animation process.  This role focuses on industrializing ML and GenAI techniques into the game engine, pushing the boundaries of high-quality, human-like animation. Responsibilities include analyzing the existing animation tech stack, proposing and implementing novel ML approaches, staying current with industry developments, contributing to the animation roadmap, collaborating with a full-stack animation team, and extending ML solutions to other domains.  The ideal candidate possesses a Masters or PhD in a related field (or equivalent experience), strong 3D math skills, game engine experience (Unreal/Unity), a deep understanding of animation techniques, and mastery of deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/Keras).

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<div class="jd-job mb5"><h2 class="f3"><span>JOB DESCRIPTION</span></h2><div><p>We are changing how we do animation here at Ubisoft and on Rainbow Six. The injection of ML and GenAI has caused a paradigm shift in the capacity to produce high quality human like animation at a scale we could not before. By joining this team, you would be contributing to modernizing our animation tech stack with novel ML based techniques to help us make bigger, better-looking games with a heavy focus on animation quality. This role would be a step beyond RND with a focus on industrializing ML into a modern games engine.&nbsp;<br>
Responsibilities<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Analyse existing animation tech stack and propose and implement novel approaches using machine learning techniques<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Stay on top of the current industry developments in ML and bring them to the animation leadership for knowledge sharing<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Execute and contribute to the existing animation roadmap for the animation team<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Work as apart of a diverse full stack animation team to revolutionize how we make animation as a studio by industrializing pragmatic ML techniques into our animation technology stacks<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Able to think outside of animation domain and provide ML solutions into other domains for problem solving</p></div><h2 class="f3"><span>QUALIFICATIONS</span></h2><div><p>-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Masters or PHD in a machine learning software engineering field (or equivalent industry experience)<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Undergaduate degree in computer science (or significant industry experience)<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Strong 3D mathematics and calculus<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Experience with modern game engines (unreal / unity)<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Understanding of current novel and standard runtime and offline animation techniques for games and film<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Innovative thinker also able to take direction<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Excellent communication skills<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Pragmatic and solution oriented<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Mastery of deep learning frameworks (pytorch / keras)<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Understanding of state of the art machine learning topics (VAEs, NERFS, GANS etc)<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;A passion for animation in games<br>
-&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;C++ experience</p></div></div>

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