Senior Animation Programmer

Description

The company is a video game developer in Poland with over 30 years in the industry and an international team of more than 500 people across studios in Wroclaw and Warsaw.

The team builds open-world action games with a focus on storytelling and community, and one of its zombie franchises has been played by over 45 million players.

The role supports the gameplay and cinematic teams by building and improving animation systems that must stay flexible enough for AI, designers and animators to use.

Responsibilities

• Research, build, maintain and improve gameplay and cinematic animation systems so that AI, designers and animators can all use them.
• Own animation features from the content creation tools through to the engine runtime.
• Work with programmers, designers and artists to gather requirements, help solve problems and make the animation workflow more efficient.
• Partner with the animation leads and the animation director to raise the quality of the game's animations.
• Profile complex data pipelines and tools, then find and remove bottlenecks in performance, memory, network and IO.
• Write documentation for the gameplay and cinematic teams.
• Track developments in animation technology and bring relevant ideas into the work.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional programming experience.
• Strong C/C++ skills.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Experience with multi-threaded and allocator-aware programming.
• Experience optimising memory and performance.
• Experience with animation graphs, blend trees and state machines in Unreal, Havok Animation, Morpheme or similar tools.
• Solid grasp of 3D maths and linear algebra.
• Skill in algorithm design, with an understanding of complexity and software architecture.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable and extensible code that can be reused.
• Strong communication skills, enthusiasm and initiative.
• Very good English.
• Experience on at least one shipped multiplayer title.
• Familiarity with animation technologies such as compression, motion synthesis, ragdoll physics and IK.
• Experience building UX and tools.
• Console programming experience.
• Experience with Maya, MotionBuilder or other digital content creation tools.
• Python experience.
• Familiarity with animation processing and deployment pipelines.

Conditions

Flexible working hours.

No dress code.

Offices in Wroclaw and Warsaw. The Warsaw car park has limited space.

Benefits

• A dedicated Buddy to support you with day-to-day tasks.
• Private medical care, life insurance, health campaigns and gifts for occasions.
• Full support from a dedicated HR Business Partner.
• A development budget for each employee, plus 2 extra paid days for training and CSR.
• Stable career paths and extensive internal and external training.
• Funded English and Polish language classes.
• Modern offices with chill-out zones, a fully equipped kitchen, a free car park and a gym at the Wroclaw office.