Technical Animator / Senior Technical Animator — Quadrupeds, Unreal Engine

Location: Remote from Serbia, Almaty, or Armenia

Company

hirify.global is a global commerce company providing funding, distribution, marketing, and monetization tools for video game developers.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain animation systems for quadruped characters in Unreal Engine.
• Set up Animation Blueprints, State Machines, Blend Spaces, Animation Layers, IK/FK systems, and procedural locomotion.
• Implement locomotion including walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, turns, starts, stops, and jumps.
• Work with motion capture cleanup, retargeting, IK Rig, IK Retargeter, Control Rig, and different skeletons.
• Optimize animation systems and resolve foot sliding, popping, IK, blending, and skeletal animation artifacts.
• Build multiplayer animation systems with networked locomotion, prediction, reconciliation, synchronized Montages, and replicated locomotion states.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in technical animation or gameplay animation.
• Hands-on quadruped animation experience, including large or heavy animals, with a required portfolio of quadruped animation examples.
• Strong Unreal Engine experience with Animation Blueprints, Control Rig, IK Rig, IK Retargeter, Blend Spaces, and State Machines.
• Knowledge of animal biomechanics, quadruped locomotion, rigging, skinning, skeleton setup, root motion, animation curves, notifies, Montages, and additive animation.
• Experience with motion capture pipelines, Maya, MotionBuilder, or a similar DCC tool, plus animation debugging and optimization.
• Conversational English required, with an understanding of replicated character state, latency, desynchronization, and networked animation issues.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contractor engagement.
• Collaboration with animators, game designers, and programmers.
• Work on multiplayer game animation systems and internal animation pipeline tools.