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Senior Expert Animation Engineer

United States of America, Woodland Hills 146000.00 - 270004.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 24, 2026
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Infinity Ward is looking for a dedicated Senior Expert Animation Engineer with a strong interest in crafting high fidelity, scalable animation systems and behaviors. From sophisticated gunplay and locomotion to solidifying our characters in the environments they inhabit, the successful candidate will be ready to tackle the wide variety of engineering challenges vital to deliver believability and style across diverse situations and gamemodes.

Job Responsibility

  • Work with animators and other engineers to design, prototype, and implement new features to continuously improve our character fidelity and believability at ever increasing scale and complexity
  • Develop and upgrade workflows to allow the efficient building, improvement and debugging of animation behaviors by animators and engineers alike
  • Support and proactively collaborate with team members at Activision studios across the world

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional programming experience with a focus on skeletal animation
  • Proficiency in C/C++ in multithreaded environments
  • Strong 3D math and linear algebra

Nice to have

  • Experience programming on multiple game consoles
  • Experience with first-person shooters and multiplayer action games

What we offer

  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
  • Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
  • Relocation assistance
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