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We're looking for creative minds and driven professionals who share our love of story, style, and adventure. If you're ready to help shape the next generation of narrative driven games, we'd love to hear from you.\nJob Summary \nAs a Senior Gameplay & Animation Engineer you will set a high bar for code quality and a passion for gameplay and animation. In this role, you will own and continue the development of our key gameplay and animation systems, you will extend and maintain the code of our technology, tools, and pipelines, working closely with the animators, character artists, designers, and programmers to help develop spectacular gameplay features for our games.\nDuties and Responsibilities \nWork within Unreal Engine 5 adapting existing systems and building new technology to fulfil the project’s technical needs and creativity.\nPrototyping and coding gameplay and animation features\nWork closely and constructively with design, animation, and engineering teams to realise creative ambitions\n Support planning efforts by estimating and dependency checking gameplay feature development\n Identify technical and developmental risks/obstacles and generate solutions to overcome identified risks\nResearch coding techniques and algorithms in order to keep current on technological developments and advancements in the game industry.\nEssential Skills, Attributes and Experience\nDemonstrable programming experience in a creative environment\nShipped one or more AAA game titles, ideally using Unreal Engine\nAdvanced proficiency in C++, linear algebra, 3D Maths and strong familiarity with Object-Oriented (OO) design principles\nExperience with GAS - the Unreal Gameplay Ability System\nUnreal Engine, Blueprints and Unreal Animation Principles \nDedication to code quality and documentation, and ability to learn and master new technologies and code\nAbility to work independently and efficiently under deadlines\nEffective communicator and collaborator with multi-disciplinary team members\nHighly Desirable \nHands-on experience developing for Unreal Engine and Xbox Series X/S and PS5\nExperience with player controlled characters, Unreal enhanced inputs, cameras and camera systems\nImplementation experience in one or more of the following areas, Inverse Kinematics techniques, Ragdoll and physics-based character animation, Procedural animation techniques, Keyframe animation and forward kinematics, Machine learning driven animation techniques\nHangar 13 prides itself on the diversity of its team members, partners, and communities. For this reason, we remain committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all aspects of the employment relationship, from recruitment and hiring through compensation, benefits, discipline and termination. \nAs an equal opportunity employer, we are also committed to ensuring that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation(s) to participate in the job application and/or interview process, to perform their essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us if you need to request reasonable accommodation.\nSECURITY NOTICE - We have recently been made aware of increasing occurrences of bad actors posing as company HR personnel to gain information from \"potential candidates\", in the form of job interviews and offers. These scams can be quite sophisticated and appear legitimate.\nPlease know that Hangar 13 and 2K never use instant messaging apps to contact prospective employees or to conduct interviews.\nIf you believe you have been a victim of such a scam, you may fill out a complaint form at https://complaint.ic3.gov/ and https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/ detailing as much as possible. 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