Wrocław or Warsaw

Your daily tasks:

• researching, developing, maintaining, and improving gameplay and cinematic animation systems while maintaining robust flexibility for use by AI, designers and animators,
• taking ownership of gameplay and cinematic animation features from content creation tools to the engine runtime,
• collaborating with programmers, designers, and artists - gathering requirements, helping troubleshoot problems and improving animation workflow efficiency,
• working closely with animation leads and animation director to raise the quality bar for animations in the game,
• profiling, identifying, and eliminating bottlenecks in complex data processing pipelines and tools (performance, memory, network, IO),
• creating documentation for the gameplay and cinematic teams,
• staying up-to-date on animation technology trends and new developments.

You meet our expectations if you have:

• minimum five years of professional programming experience,
• expertise in C/C++,
• excellent problem-solving and debugging skills,
• experience with multi-threaded and allocator-aware programming,
• experience with memory and performance optimization,
• experience with animation graphs, blend trees and state machines (Unreal, Havok Animation, Morpheme or similar),
• solid understanding of 3D maths and linear algebra,
• proficiency in algorithm design; understanding of complexity and software architecture and design,
• ability to write clean, maintainable and extensible code with attention to reusability,
• great communication skills, enthusiasm and initiative,
• very good command of English.

Nice to have:

• experience working on at least one shipped multiplayer title,
• familiarity with various animation technologies such as compression, motion synthesis, ragdoll physics IK, etc.,
• UX and tool creation experience,
• console programming experience,
• Maya/Motion Builder or other digital content creation tools experience,
• Python experience,
• familiarity with animation processing and deployment pipelines.