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Responsibilities

• Define the direction of animation technology at Rare to support our current and future game designs in collaboration with Animation, Technical Animation and Art teams.
• Support the development of earlier in career animation engineers through managing taskings, identifying growth opportunities, mentoring, and coaching.
• Handle a full range of animation technology such as character movement, player interaction, multi-character interactions, tools, and multiplayer gameplay.
• Own collaboration between animation and AI teams, influencing direction of both teams to achieve Everwild’s visual and experiential targets.
• Profile, optimise, and maintain new and existing animation systems to deliver a living and breathing world at scale.
• Be keen to push the boundaries of what has been achieved in animation to bring our characters to life.
• Be part of Rare's culture; be inquisitive, try things out, break stuff, and help people be even better.

Qualifications

• At least four years of professional games experience or equivalent experience that would put you at this level.
• Excellent communication skills and keenness for empowering others.
• Recent professional experience of developing in C++.
• Practical experience in an animation engineering role, familiarity with standard approaches in real-time animation and an enthusiasm for the subject.

• Experience of working with Unreal Engine.
• A solid grounding in Computer Science theory.
• Experience of working with multiplayer architectures.
• Experience working in, or with, the AI engineering domain.

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