Senior Animation Engineer (Unity3D)

Location: Fully remote; Poznań, Poland, Europe

Company

hirify.global develops a major stylized game project in Unity3D with an international team.

What you will do

• Develop and optimize animation runtime systems in Unity, including state machines, blend trees, layers, masks, root motion, events, and compression.
• Build data-oriented animation solutions using ECS/DOTS, Entities, Jobs, Burst, and baking workflows.
• Explore GPU skinning, deformation, compute shaders, vertex shaders, and vertex animation techniques.
• Create Unity editor tools, validators, asset processors, and production workflows for animation teams.
• Support rigging, skeleton, skinning, and FBX workflows between Maya or Blender and Unity.
• Profile and optimize animation systems for mobile hardware while collaborating with animators, technical artists, gameplay engineers, and rendering engineers.

Requirements

• Strong C# and Unity engineering experience.
• Hands-on ECS/DOTS experience, including Entities, Burst, Jobs, and baking, or deep equivalent data-oriented engine experience.
• Strong understanding of animation runtimes, character rigs, skeletons, skinning, and FBX pipelines.
• Experience with GPU skinning, deformation, HLSL, compute shaders, vertex shaders, and Shader Graph or Amplify.
• Experience creating Unity editor tools and optimizing mobile graphics workloads, particularly on Adreno and Mali hardware.
• Fluent English required. Familiarity with GLES and Vulkan and strong communication skills are also required.

Nice to have

• Experience with DOTS animation frameworks such as Rukhanka or Latios Kinemation.
• Experience building custom animation runtimes, networked animation, prediction and rollback, or multiplayer technology.
• Experience with procedural, facial, or crowd animation systems.
• Experience developing animation systems for mobile or other performance-constrained platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible contract options depending on location.
• Meaningful ownership of animation technology on a major Unity3D game project.
• Direct collaboration with experienced animators, technical artists, engineers, and discipline leads.
• Competitive compensation based on experience and contract structure.
• Annual Beffio team retreats and potential for long-term collaboration.