Director Animation Engineering

3 weeks ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Activision Blizzard Full time
Job Description:

Your Mission:
Our team is seeking a dedicated and passionate Animation Technical Director to help develop animation systems. You will be driving the long term vision and detail the roadmap of the animation system, working with engineers across multiple time zones.
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:

  1. Push the animation system to the bleeding edge
  2. Drive the vision and roadmap animation systems for the next 5 years and beyond
  3. Be prepared to stand up a team of engineers to help deliver that vision
  4. Working with other engineers, to actively implement the core animation systems
  5. Collaborate with engineering, design and art teams around the globe
  6. Participate in the design, performance and code review process

Player Profile:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Math related field
At least 10 years experience in computer animation or related field
Comfortable with of the state of the art in computer animation
Have shipped at least 1 AAA games
Proficient with code and data optimization
Strong C/C++ skills
Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented programming
Excellent math skills
Good knowledge of CPU and memory architectures
Solid debugging skills including the ability to debug at an assembly-level when necessary
Creative, motivated, focused, passionate

Bonus Points:
At least 2 years of experience as a lead or technical director
Have shipped multiple AAA games
Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
Experience with shader programming languages
Experience with animation compression and streaming
Confident with writing efficient, clean, readable, portable, and reliable code #J-18808-Ljbffr


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