Principal Animation Programmer – AAA Games – Liverpool, UK – Permanent

This vacancy may offer a work-from-home start until it is safe to work in-house or relocate to the location.

Project: AAA Games

OPM’s client is rapidly growing with many high-end games in development across multiple genres including Narrative Adventure and Action Shooter titles.

They are a team of professional, friendly developers who form a world class studio staffed with excited, passionate creators who love to collaborate across varied, inspiring, and challenging games.

The successful candidate will join development on a ground-breaking PvP shooter with a powerful focus on art, animation and delivering distinctive character performances to amplify player presence and immersion to new levels.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience as an Animation Programmer on at least one shipped PC or Console game.
• Passionate about character animation.
• Solid understanding and experience programming in C++.
• Knowledge of Unreal Engine Animation Graph, custom animation nodes, behaviour trees.
• Experience in debugging, profiling, and optimising CPU performance of large real-time systems.
• Software engineering understanding, such as OOP, design patterns & API development.
• Confident in 3D maths, vectors, matrices, linear algebra.

RESPONSIBLITIES:

• You will prototype, implement, iterate, and polish character animation and locomotion.
• You will act as a point of contact for artists and other coders for the systems you create and maintain.
• You will take ownership of one or multiple game systems.
• You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the animation pipeline and state machines.
• You will mentor junior programmers.

DESIRED SKILLS (good to have):

• Having an instinct ‘game feel’
• Experience with Console development

BENEFITS:

• Private Healthcare Plan.
• Bonus Scheme.
• Enhanced Holiday Allowance.
• Pension Plans.
• Work remotely within the UK.

Interested in finding out more about the studio and project? Apply now or call directly today on +44 1206 214 418!

Tagged as: Animation Programming, C, Character Animation