About the role
<div class="content-intro"><h2>WHAT MAKES US EPIC?</h2> <p>At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.</p> <p>Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.</p></div><h2>ART</h2> <h3><strong>What We Do</strong></h3> <p>Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <p>Epic Games is looking for a Technical Designer in Animation (TDiA) to join our team working across various animation systems. As a TDiA, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate entertaining, high-quality characters. You will be a primary point of contact for animation implementation, any animation-related technical challenges, and will work closely with Animation, Design, and Engineering colleagues to ensure the animation pipeline operates smoothly and efficiently. You will also help identify potential issues and deploy correct solutions, using your technical knowledge to help bridge and facilitate communication between the animation team and other departments.</p> <h3><strong>In this role, you will</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Build animation behavior tools, techniques, and frameworks that enable complex systems and entertaining characters</li> <li><span>Design and implement animation state machines, behaviors, and runtime solutions</span></li> <li><span>Partner with animation leadership to translate creative vision into technical reality, protecting style consistency and pushing the quality bar</span></li> <li><span>Collaborate with Design and Engineering to troubleshoot and resolve in-game animation issues and technical challenges</span></li> <li><span>Identify opportunities to improve the animation pipeline and workflow, and provide technical solutions for the animation team</span></li> <li><span>Create documentation and deliver training to level up the animation team's technical fluency</span></li> <li><span>Collaborate with Technical Designers in Animation (TDiA) across Epic Games to share solutions, align workflows where appropriate and identify opportunities to leverage existing tools and systems rather than duplicatin