Electronic Arts

Founded in 2010 by the original creators of the Call of Duty Franchise, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they'll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. From our roots as an indie studio to joining the expansive roster of studios at Electronic Arts, this remains our guiding principle. We truly love what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide.

Our shipped titles include critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars™ Jedi: Survivor and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. Join us for the opportunity to create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talent in the industry.

We're looking for an accomplished Senior Technical Animator - Character Rigging R&D who will embrace our philosophy and share their hard-earned expertise to provide support to our Apex Legends Animation and Character teams. As a Senior Technical Animator, you will play a key role in empowering other developers by working closely with the Tech Anim, Character Art and Animation Departments. If this sounds like you, we're eager to chat!

What you'll do

• Reporting to the Lead Technical Animator, you will be responsible for developing character rigs, scripting tools and supporting artist workflows.

• Pioneer and develop solutions for emerging character workflows across the current area of responsibility.

• Work directly with relevant contributors and department heads to develop our DCC and runtime tools for our animation and character pipelines in Maya and Source Engine.

• Partner with Tech, Anim and Character Art to implement solutions that are robust, performant and scalable.

• Provide troubleshooting support to the relevant Art and Animation Teams, primarily for rigs and tools in Maya and integrating assets in engine.

Ideally, you'll have

• 5+ years' game industry experience working on the technical side of Art/Animation for games.

• Strong communication skills. We’ll be relying on you to understand the needs of your peers while being able to communicate your own.

• The ability to give and receive feedback in a constructive, timely, and professional manner.

• Experience rigging and skinning characters, mechanical setups and creatures in Maya.

• Experience with live service content workflows, character personalization, skins, etc.

• Experience with real time deformation and physics setups in a game engine.

• Experience in writing Artist/Animator facing tools for relevant software (Python/PySide).

• Experience working with both keyframe animation and motion capture data.

• Experience contributing to a FACS based facial animation pipeline is a plus.

• Experience on 1 or more shipped titles, ideally in the FPS genre.

If this opportunity sounds like a great fit for you, please submit your resume and we will get back to you once we have reviewed it.

In addition to opportunities for creative impact and professional growth which come with being a member of our team, working at Respawn has many other perks and benefits! Learn more at respawn.com/perks.

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $119,600 - $167,300 CAD

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco)
  • $138,400 - $211,700 USD

In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.