Senior Robot Animator

Responsibilities

• Author robot motion in Maya (or Blender) using keyframe, procedural, and capture-based techniques
• Work with our robotics engineers to take motion from digital content creation (DCC) to real hardware
• Choreograph and time performances, including multi-robot sequences and motion cut to music or camera
• Deliver finished rendered work as well as sequences performed by the machines themselves
• Build motion libraries and retargeting that support our simulation and machine learning work
• Partner with our hardware teams on previz and range-of-motion studies that inform design

Qualifications

• 5+ years animating professionally in film/VFX, games, or robotics, or equivalent senior-level experience — demo reel required
• Expert keyframe animation with a strong sense of weight, timing, and body mechanics
• Rigging experience with mechanical or articulated characters: constraints, IK/FK, joint limits, mechanism-accurate setups
• Comfortable cleaning, editing, and retargeting motion capture onto non-human skeletons
• Background working with humanoid or robotic characters in simulation or the real world
• Familiarity with controls/rigid-body dynamics/simulation is a plus

Pay

Base Salary Range: $100,000 USD - $300,000 USD