Animation Programmer

Join Constellation!

Come join Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning development team behind Starfield, The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios strives to offer its employees a well-balanced home and work life by providing competitive salaries, a generous benefits program, and offices located in some of North America’s best cities.

With a goal of creating a culture as fun and diverse as our games and our players, we welcome applicants with unique skillsets, experience levels and backgrounds. If you are passionate about making a meaningful contribution to some of the most significant games in the industry we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Your Daily Life at Bethesda Game Studios

As Animation Programmer, you will…

• Work side-by-side with Technical Artists, Animators, and Gameplay Programmers

• Own the animation pipeline from concept to realization

• Create and implement technology and techniques that provide a leading edge animation experience

Qualifications

What Makes You S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• You possess expert level knowledge of real-time animation systems

• You have extensive experience with one or more real-time animation middleware (eg: Havok Animation, Granny, HumanIK, Morpheme) or equivalent custom/in-house solutions

• You have experience developing or working with animation blend graphs, real-time IK, animation compression, and/or advanced animation memory management (streaming)

• You enjoy working daily with animators and technical artists to help craft solutions to complex problems

• You have at least 5 years game industry software development experience

• You have prior experience acting as an owner of animation systems

Preferred Skills

Bonus Skills:

• You have experience developing for multiple platforms (OSX, Windows, PS4, XBox One)

• You have experience with animation systems

• You have generalist experience or prior experience in other core areas of game development, such as AI or gameplay programming

• You have a passion for developing and playing games