Principal Character Technical Artist

📋 Description

• Partner with Pillar teams to shape features and guide R&D.
• Set standards for rigging, animation, and dynamic presentation in UE5.
• Maintain character pipeline from DCC apps to Unreal; build tooling.
• Define budgets/benchmarks; balance fidelity with runtime performance.
• Mentor a team of character technical artists and foster problem-solving.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in game dev; 3+ years as Senior/Principal Technical Artist on shipped AAA.
• Unreal Engine 5 mastery: Blueprints, Control Rig, Niagara, physics.
• DCC tools: Maya, Blender, Houdini; scripting in Python, C++, or VEX.
• Anatomy and facial rigging, weight painting, procedural animation.
• Bonus: live-service or multiplayer experience.

🎁 Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• 14 paid holidays; 15–25 days vacation; discretionary time off; 10 paid sick days.
• Paid parental and compassionate leave; wellbeing programs and Maven family planning.
• Commuter benefits and fitness expense reimbursements.
• 401(k) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program.