Senior Animator (Game Development)

TL;DR

Senior Animator (Game Development): Creating polished, expressive character, creature, and gameplay animations for a major upcoming game project with an accent on Unreal Engine, keyframe animation, motion capture, and efficient production pipelines. Focus on solving technical animation challenges, collaborating across art and engineering disciplines, and mentoring junior animators in a globally distributed remote team.

Location: Remote, based in the United States. The stated salary range applies to California-based employees.

Salary: $100,000–$131,000 for California-based employees.

Company

hirify.global uses an AI-powered matching process to connect candidates with partner companies and manages application screening before the hiring company's internal selection process.

What you will do

• Create high-quality animations for characters, creatures, and gameplay assets that meet artistic, gameplay, and technical requirements.
• Use keyframe and motion capture techniques in Unreal Engine across varied animation needs.
• Collaborate with animation leadership, technical art, design, narrative, engineering, and art teams to improve implementation, tools, workflows, and pipelines.
• Review, iterate, document, debug, and troubleshoot animation assets and production issues.
• Manage animation deliverables, milestones, priorities, and deadlines while maintaining consistently high-quality output.
• Mentor junior animators and contribute to animation standards, processes, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional animation experience and experience shipping at least one Unreal Engine title in an animation role.
• Strong hands-on proficiency with Unreal Engine animation tools and advanced experience with Blender.
• Extensive knowledge of animation pipelines, production workflows, and asset development.
• Experience with both keyframe and motion capture animation techniques.
• Strong art fundamentals, aesthetic judgment, documentation, debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Portfolio demonstrating relevant animation work and shipped or production-quality projects.

Nice to have

• Creature or non-bipedal animation experience.
• First-person animation experience.
• Advanced Blender expertise.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time work within a globally distributed remote team.
• Annual professional development support and a home office stipend.
• Paid time off for volunteer and nonprofit activities.
• Collaboration with experienced professionals across creative and technical disciplines.
• Supportive environment focused on creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Equal employment opportunity and inclusion for qualified applicants.

Hiring process

• Applications are screened through an AI-powered matching process.
• Shortlisted candidates are shared with the hiring company, which manages interviews, assessments, and final next steps.