Senior Technical Animator, Developer Relations

Epic Games

Summary

This job involves being a Senior Technical Animator in Developer Relations at Epic Games, where you will work on innovative uses of the Unreal Engine, empowering licensees to solve technical and artistic issues, and contributing to the ongoing improvement of the engine's animation tools and features.

What you'll do

Diagnose issues and guide best practices in linear and runtime animation for Unreal Engine licensees in person, via video, or over email
Work with the engine team, customers, and technical partners in the ongoing improvement of Unreal Engine’s animation tools and features
Drive the creation and development of knowledge sharing resources such as samples, live presentations, whitepapers, tutorials, and knowledge base articles
Build a variety of animation asset types and help others to do so
Understand typical performance bottlenecks in animation and assist licensees in resolving them
Provide mentorship and coaching to team members

Requirements

User-focused, passionate, self-sufficient, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do
Experience working with a wide range of Unreal Engine animation assets such as animation blueprints, control rigs, IK retargeting, level sequences, ML deformer, deformer graph, etc.
Experience building DCC and pipeline tools
Strong written/verbal communication skills including the ability to train others, or give technical presentations to audiences with varying technical backgrounds
Self-motivated individual who will take ownership of the technical relationship with developers and work proactively to reduce friction and improve processes
Professional experience with Unreal Engine 5, particularly the animation pipeline
Knowledge of Maya, MotionBuilder, Blender and/or other DCC applications
Experience rigging characters either in Unreal Engine and DCC tools
Experience with Motion Matching
Prior developer relations experience is a bonus