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We’re Criterion, and we love making games!

For more than fifteen years we’ve entertained millions of players around the world with our award-winning games. Our experienced people have expressed their passion for phenomenal game feel, AAA audiovisual quality, and technical innovation in the Burnout & Need for Speed series and in Battlefield 1, Star Wars X-Wing VR, Starfighter Assault, Arcade for Star Wars Battlefront II and Firestorm for Battlefield V, as well as the upcoming Battlefield 2042 and the next Need For Speed.

We believe that healthy, engaged teams make great games, so we place enormous value on collaboration, fresh ideas, and unique perspectives. We’d love to hear yours! Crunch doesn’t help make a better game. We don’t do it. For the past five years, we are very proud to have been recognized by gamesindustry.biz as one of the best places to work in the UK. Let’s talk about how you could be a part of it.

What an Animation Engineer does at Criterion:

Design and develop new content creation tools, workflow tools and general productivity tools
Support Designers using tools and workflows with debugging tools, documentation and usability
Work with designers & animators to understand requirements and plan out functional requirements
Design, architect and document technical designs for Animation systems
Rapidly prototype new mechanics to prove designs and iterate on mechanics
Work with the Frostbite Engine and Frostbite Team to develop shareable code and interface correctly with the engine
Identify bottlenecks and performance issues involving CPU time and bandwidth and improve them
Provide solutions that consider multi-threading, hardware requirements, skeleton optimisations

An Animation Engineer also needs:

Experience with Animation features such as skeletons, rigs, animation compression, blending, ragdolls, IK, procedural animation solutions, motion fields, character physics, secondary motion
Experience with Data-driven State Machines
Experience with Animator tools to control blending, controller trees, and transitions
Passion for Animation technologies
Proficiency with C++
Multi-threaded programming and debugging experience
Experience with Agile development philosophies
Experience with Unit testing frameworks a bonus
Respond to Code Review feedback and provide quality Code Review feedback
Knowledge of source code management

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About EA

At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free video games and so much more! Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.