Senior Technical Animator (Unreal Engine)

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; office-based

Company

hirify.global is a global video game company creating original and memorable interactive entertainment experiences.

What you will do

• Support and evolve animation systems for motion capture, facial animation, and lip sync.
• Develop and maintain animation rigs and procedural systems with animators and riggers.
• Analyze production needs and propose tools, workflows, and best practices.
• Validate animation assets and support nodal system creation.
• Integrate animations into the game engine and prototype animation and physics systems.
• Improve animation production workflows and maintain technical documentation.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of game engine animation workflows and animation principles, including anatomy and body mechanics.
• Experience with Unreal Engine and Blueprints.
• Experience with rigging, inverse kinematics, and state machines.
• Ability to create or adapt tools using Python or MaxScript.
• Familiarity with digital content creation software, plus basic modeling and animation skills.
• Strong cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication skills with a detail-oriented, proactive, and adaptable approach.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time employment.
• Office-based work in Montreal.
• Collaboration across animation, rigging, game design, and programming disciplines.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV highlighting relevant skills and experience.
• Provide examples of technical animation work, tools, or systems contributed to.