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Description

Contract Length: 12-18 months

Work Location: Work From Home but candidate must be local to the Greater Seattle Area

Work Hours: Fulltime

We are looking for an Animation Engineer to join our client's team to work on their new AAA title. As an Animation Engineer, you will help extend the animation feature set to deliver a better cinematic and gameplay experience. We are looking for an individual who will strive to meet and exceed current AAA animation quality standards..

Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with other Engineers, Animators and Designers to enable rapid prototyping of new animation features and systems.
  • Collaborate with members of other teams and disciplines to understand the full picture and deliver technology that meets everyone's needs.
  • Deliver architecture, implementation, and maintenance of robust, flexible, serviceable animation and gameplay systems.
  • Help and support users of the animation system.

Keywords provides a competitive compensation package, good benefits and a casual, fun, productive and supportive working environment. We empower people to perform to the best of their ability with our “can do” attitude. We appreciate and embrace flexibility and learn at every opportunity to grow ourselves through experience, training and tackling new challenges. This is what makes us Keywordians

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of professional C++ experience.
  • Solid understanding of algorithms, performance, optimization, and debugging.
  • Comfortable working with large and complex codebases.
  • Good 3D math skills (linear algebra and trigonometry).
  • Understanding of gameplay and animation systems.

Pluses

  • Previous experience in the gaming industry.
  • Experience building design tools in the games (or related) industry.

Benefits

At KeyWords we provide all our contingent workforce with:

  • Paid Time Off (including sick days and holidays)
  • 401k (3% matching)
  • Medical, Dental and Vision benefits