Character Animator (Unreal Engine)

Company

hirify.global is an independent game studio developing a new Star Trek game after releasing Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown.

What you will do

• Stage and animate in-game dialogue scenes with MetaHumans, including reusable talk, gesture, and idle sets.
• Create bespoke animation for key moments and bring crew activities, console interactions, and room movement to life.
• Investigate, integrate, and polish automated facial animation and lip-sync output from tools such as NVIDIA Audio2Face and JALI.
• Set up crew paths and room animations with internal tools, and identify props requiring interaction animations.
• Implement animations in Unreal Engine 5 and fix transitions, repetitive idles, and timing issues.
• Collaborate with technical art and programming on the animation pipeline.

Requirements

• Character animation experience on shipped games and a reel demonstrating this experience.
• Strong understanding of body mechanics, posing, and timing, with experience in dialogue or cinematic animation.
• Solid Unreal Engine 5 animation knowledge, including Sequencer and implementation into existing runtime systems.
• Experience with MetaHumans and their body and face Control Rigs, working non-destructively without changing skeleton hierarchies.
• Maya as the primary animation tool; Maya source files and clean round-trips between Maya and Unreal are required.
• Retargeting experience.
• Git and Unreal asset management, including redirectors.
• Good judgment about when reused assets or automated output are sufficient and when custom animation is needed.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a small independent game studio with short decision paths, direct collaboration, and ownership of your area.

Hiring process

• Submit an application with a CV, letter of motivation, and animation reel to info@hirify.global.com.