# Senior Technical Animator

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

**Apply**: https://www.epicgames.com/site/careers/jobs/5691788004
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_474a3947-3eb

## Description

## Senior Technical Animator

We're seeking a skilled Senior Technical Animator to join our Cinematics team at Epic Games. As a key member of our team, you'll be responsible for rigging characters, props, and vehicles, setting up assets in Unreal Engine 5, and working closely with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth development pipeline and workflow.

### 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

Our benefits package includes:

- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums paid for you and your dependents

- Long-term disability and life insurance

- 401(k) with competitive match

- Unlimited PTO and sick time

- Paid sabbatical after 7 years of service

- Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health

- Company-wide paid breaks and celebrations throughout the year

## Skills

### Required
- rigging
- Unreal Engine
- character animation
- pipeline tools
- UI Pickers