Technical Animator

TECHNICAL ANIMATOR

SophiaVerse – an in-development gaming experience associated with cutting-edge AGI development – is actively looking for a Technical Animator to join our team. This position will be responsible for a broad range of animation duties, both character and environmental, required to implement a persistent multiplayer metaverse with AI and player character interactivity. We are looking for someone who is an expert with rigging and animation in Blender-Unity (or pure Unity), and technical animation tasks in C#, Rust, and other Unity systems, who will fit well with our team and can help us make a great experience. 

In this role, you will: 

• Take ownership of the animation and animtech-integration tasks needed to implement an interactable 3D environment featuring AI and player characters. 
• Systematize the animation process into a library-driven, high-reuse, efficient pipeline. 
• Solve animtech challenges involved in creating a persistent multiuser game environment featuring interactable environments with AI and player character actors. 
• Ensure the animation library, and animtech script library, are robust, efficient, and scalable. 
• Create character and environmental animations, and integrate them into the environments/levels. 
• Prototype, refine, and deploy solutions to all our animtech problems in creating a persistent, stateful, interactive, multiuser experience. 
• Work with gameplay programmers to ensure animtech solutions perform as needed to implement interactions between characters, characters-environmental interactions, and environment-to-environment interactions. 
• Participate in gameplay and animtech code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring that all systems are implementing the necessary hooks and procedures for animtech integration. 
• Write efficient, high-quality, scalable, testable animtech scripts. 
• Self-motivated, strong work ethic, and able to work independently 
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to animtech systems. 

What we're looking for: 

• An expert in Unity animation, with sufficient Animator component and C# and/or Rust skills to implement clean animtech code 
• Animation experience, both character and environmental, in Unity, Unity+Blender, or similar animation-into-engine pipelines 
• A keen analytical mind, with strong problem-solving skills 
• Experience developing and shipping AA or AAA games as a technical animator 
• Self-motivated, strong work ethic, and able to work independently 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate fluently in English (written and verbal)