Machine Learning Programmer (Character & Animation)

1 Month ago • All levels • Animation

Job Summary

Job Description

Ubisoft is revolutionizing its animation process for Rainbow Six, leveraging machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) to produce high-quality human-like animations at scale. This Machine Learning Programmer role focuses on industrializing ML techniques within a modern game engine. Responsibilities include analyzing the existing animation tech stack, proposing and implementing novel ML approaches, staying current with industry developments, contributing to the animation roadmap, and collaborating with a diverse team to modernize animation technology. The ideal candidate possesses a Master's or PhD in a relevant field (or equivalent experience), strong 3D math skills, game engine experience (Unreal/Unity), understanding of animation techniques, and mastery of deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/Keras).
Must have:
  • Masters/PhD in ML or equivalent
  • Strong 3D math & calculus
  • Game engine experience (Unreal/Unity)
  • Deep learning framework mastery (PyTorch/Keras)
  • Animation tech stack analysis & implementation
  • Excellent communication skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with VAEs, NERFS, GANs
  • C++ experience

Job Details

Job Description

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. 
Responsibilities
-    Analyse existing animation tech stack and propose and implement novel approaches using machine learning techniques
-    Stay on top of the current industry developments in ML and bring them to the animation leadership for knowledge sharing
-    Execute and contribute to the existing animation roadmap for the animation team
-    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
-    Able to think outside of animation domain and provide ML solutions into other domains for problem solving

Qualifications

-    Masters or PHD in a machine learning software engineering field (or equivalent industry experience)
-    Undergaduate degree in computer science (or significant industry experience)
-    Strong 3D mathematics and calculus
-    Experience with modern game engines (unreal / unity)
-    Understanding of current novel and standard runtime and offline animation techniques for games and film
-    Innovative thinker also able to take direction
-    Excellent communication skills
-    Pragmatic and solution oriented
-    Mastery of deep learning frameworks (pytorch / keras)
-    Understanding of state of the art machine learning topics (VAEs, NERFS, GANS etc)
-    A passion for animation in games
-    C++ experience

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