Overview In this role you lead technical animation for expressive character movement within Epic's art team, collaborating across disciplines to improve workflows and tools. You contribute to Fortnite and Disney collaborations, ensuring assets are production-ready and aligned with the engine pipeline. You mentor rigging-focused technologists and help shape Unreal Engine 5 workflows. You'll drive cross-team alignment, tackle pipeline challenges, and deliver high-quality, performant character animations that elevate gameplay experiences.
Compensation / Benefits- 100% premiums for you and dependents
- Medical, Dental, Vision HRA
- Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- 401k with competitive match
- unlimited PTO and paid sabbatical after 7 years
Responsibilities- Collaborate with technical animators, leads, directors, and outsource managers to ensure asset readiness across production stages
- Drive strategy and alignment for technical animation and related gameplay teams
- Plan and delegate asset work with production, including internal and vendor coordination
- Coordinate with animators, modelers, and designers to maintain a smooth development pipeline delivering high-quality assets
- Contribute to pipeline tooling and work with engine leads to improve engine tools
- Mentor rigging-focused technical animators
- Rig characters, weapons, creatures, and vehicles
- Set up assets in Unreal Engine 5, including control rigs, cloth, physics, and blueprints
- Maintain documentation, video references, and examples of asset production and engine requirements
Key requirements- Extensive character rigging in Maya and/or Unreal Engine
- Portfolio showing rigging for multiple characters, bipeds, creatures (body and facial rigging)
- Strong attention to character deformation and physics movement
- Familiarity with Unreal Engine 5 art pipeline
- Strong written communication and teamwork skills
- Exceptional problem-solving ability
- Control Rig experience is a plus
- Python programming is a plus
- User-focused, passionate, solutions-oriented and innovative
- collaboration
- strong communication
- teamwork
- character rigging
- Maya
- Unreal Engine
