Senior Technical Animator - Character Rigging (Apex Legends)

- Responsible for developing character rigs, scripting tools and supporting artist workflows. - Pioneer and develop solutions for emerging character workflows. - Work directly with contributors and department heads to develop DCC and runtime tools for animation and character pipelines in Maya and Source Engine. - Partner with Tech, Anim and Character Art to implement robust, performant and scalable solutions. - Provide troubleshooting support to Art and Animation Teams for rigs and tools in Maya and engine integration. - 5+ years' game industry experience working on the technical side of Art/Animation for games. - Strong communication skills to understand peer needs and communicate your own. - Ability to give and receive feedback constructively, timely, and professionally. - Experience rigging and skinning characters, mechanical setups and creatures in Maya. - Experience with live service content workflows, character personalization, and skins. - Experience with real time deformation and physics setups in a game engine. - Experience in writing Artist/Animator facing tools (Python/PySide). - Experience working with both keyframe animation and motion capture data. - Experience contributing to a FACS based facial animation pipeline is a plus. - Experience on 1 or more shipped titles, ideally in the FPS genre.