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Senior Animation Software Engineer - Lightspeed

California, United States (On-site)

Senior Animation Software Engineer - Lightspeed

1 Month ago • 5-10 Years

About the job

Summary_{By Outscal}

Tencent Lightspeed seeks a Senior Animation Software Engineer with 5+ years experience in game development to create animation features, tools, and pipelines. Expertise in real-time animation middleware, C++, and 3D math is crucial. You'll work alongside Technical Artists, Animators, and Designers.

Responsibilities:

Tencent lightspeed tech center is looking for a Senior Animation Software Engineer to develop animation related features, including ingame animation, maya animation tools and pipelines. You will work side-by-side with Technical Artists, Animators, Designers and other Gameplay Engineers. You will work on animation plugins, or directly with production team, to debug and polish and animation features to ensure games are shipped under performance, memory and load time budgets.

Work with the animation team to help develop new animation systems and improve existing ones.
Integrate new animation technologies from and into the game engine.
Make recommendations to improve animation tools and pipelines, and make animator workflows more efficient.
Support animators by debugging animation tools and help unblock them.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
5+ years software development experience in the game industry
Experience with real-time animation middleware or equivalent custom/in-house solutions
Enjoys working daily with animators and technical artists to help create solutions to complex problems
Excellent 3D math skills
Programming experience in C++
Write clear, maintainable, portable code

Plus to have:

Knowledge of rigid body physics and physical animation
Experienced with Machine learning animation
Experienced with GUI development

Location State(s)

California

The base pay range for this position in the state(s) above is $127,200 to $259,200 per year. Actual pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as other medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the specific position offered.

$127.2K - $259.2K/yr (Outscal est.)

$193.2K/yr avg.

Los Angeles, California, United States