# Senior Technical Animator

**Company**: Epic Games
**Location**: Montreal
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q739711

**Apply**: https://www.epicgames.com/site/careers/jobs/5699957004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0617621a-d2d

## Description

## Senior Technical Animator

Epic Games is searching for a Senior Technical Animator with a passion for expressive character movement to work within the Cinematics team.

### Key Responsibilities:

- Rig characters, props and vehicles

- Set up assets in Unreal Engine 5; including cloth, physics, blueprints

- Work closely with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth development pipeline and workflow that delivers high quality assets

- Assist and build pipeline tools and work with engine and project leads on continuous improvement of those engine tools

- Direct Technical Animation work for Cinematic trailers, including outsourced and internal trailers

- Provide support and optimization for Animation Team, including performance/speed optimizations, engine stability, control rig/constraint bug issues, and animation workflows

- Design UI Pickers for the Animation team

### Requirements:

- Extensive experience rigging characters in the Unreal Engine

- A portfolio demonstrating rigging for a range of characters, bipeds, and creatures, both body and faces

- Attention to aesthetic detail, especially with regards to character deformation and physics movement

- Familiarity with the Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline

- Positive individual with strong written communication and teamwork skills

- Exceptional problem-solver

- Experience developing character pipelines and tools

### Benefits:

Epic Games offers a comprehensive benefits package, including 100% paid benefits for employees and dependents, as well as a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match.

## Skills

### Required
- rigging
- Unreal Engine
- character animation
- pipeline tools
- technical animation