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Rigging and Pipeline TD

Location: Work from home (UK only) or from our brand-new studio in Cambridge, UK.

About us: Ninja Theory is a five-time Bafta award winning games company based in Cambridge, UK and part of Xbox Game Studios. Our Mission is: To Craft Life-changing Art with Game-changing Tech and we are building the team that will help us fulfil that promise.

Your Role: You will be responsible for aspects of the design, implementation and maintenance of the studio’s character rigging, animation, and studio-wide asset management pipelines. This is a highly diverse and collaborative role. It touches on multiple aspects of development, working cross department to solve complex problems and provide pipeline support in a rapidly evolving environment. The ability to meet individual and departmental needs within the overall studio vision of a unified approach to development is key.

Requirements

Your skill: A relentless problem solver driven by a desire to remove blockers for artists and to empower them to create exceptional quality at scale.

You will have:

• The ability to critically evaluate existing workflows, suggesting and implementing improvements
• The ability to develop powerful new workflows with a clear and intuitive end-user experience.
• Excellent Python skills, with the ability to write clear, well-structured, and documented code for multiple DCC packages, Unreal Engine and proprietary tools.
• Experience with C++ would be a bonus but is not essential.

Your experience: As well as the above skills you will also have:

• A thorough understanding of current rigging and animation pipelines with production experience in this area on at least one recently shipped AAA title.
• Awareness of cutting-edge animation and rigging technologies is essential, with hands-on experience a significant bonus.

As a bonus, we’d also love you to have

• Hands-on authoring of bespoke character control/deformation rigs.
• Practical experience with asset management systems

Our Values: Greatness through Excellence, Teamwork & Integrity.

We offer great pay, wide-ranging benefits and flexible working arrangements so you can focus on what matters. We avoid hierarchy, egos and crunch, preferring trust, talent and experience to see us through. You will be part of an inclusive group of ninjas who know what it takes to succeed, and who will encourage and support you to do the same.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a BAFTA Award winning studio in the Xbox Game Studios Group and be part of pushing the boundaries of interactive entertainment.