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Director, Animation Engineering

Activision, Santa Monica, California, United States, 90403


Job Title: Director, Animation Engineering

Requisition ID: R022827

Job Description:

Elsewhere Entertainment is looking for a Director, Animation Engineering to join the development of a new IP.

You will help direct and define our project's game engine technology, and how we optimize content, workflow, and performance. By leading a team of engineers and working in close partnership with fellow directors and leads across the project, you will boldly craft, coordinate, and prioritize explicit and attainable objectives for the engineering teams within the Engine organization.

As a leader on the project, you’ll help take the studio and our game from great to even better—with a focus on inclusivity, mutual respect (for ourselves and our players), thoughtfulness, empathy, professionalism, and collaboration.

You’ll help us by…

Push the animation system to the forefront

Drive the vision and roadmap animation systems for the next 5 years and beyond

Working with other engineers, to actively implement the core animation systems

Collaborate with engineering, design and art teams around the globe

Participate in the design, performance and code review process

You’re awesome because you have…

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Math, or a related field

At least 10 years experience in computer animation or related field

Comfortable with the state of the art in computer animation

Have shipped at least 1 AAA game

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

Proven 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

Experience with shader programming languages

Experience with animation compression and streaming

Confident with writing efficient, clean, readable, portable, and reliable code

Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! At Activision, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

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