Level is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Animation

Responsibilities

• Build the systems that make characters move with personality, environments react with believability, and players connect emotionally with digital worlds
• Own animation system architecture and runtime optimization
• Own skeletal animation, blending, and state machines
• Own physics-based animation and procedural systems
• Own animation compression and streaming
• Own tool integration for animation workflows

Requirements

• 5+ years of real-time animation system development
• Deep C++ experience
• Experience with skeletal animation, inverse kinematics, and blending
• Understanding of animation mathematics and interpolation algorithms
• Performance optimization for animation-heavy scenes
• Collaboration experience with animators and technical artists

Nice to Have

• Godot animation system expertise
• Motion capture integration experience
• Procedural animation techniques
• Physics simulation integration (ragdoll, cloth, etc.)