Senior Technical Facilitator (R27076)

Date Posted: Nov 17, 2025
Monthly: USD 4000 - USD 8000

Job Detail

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    Location Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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    Job Type: Full Time/Permanent
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    Shift: First Shift (Day)
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    Career Level: Experienced Professional
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    Positions: 10
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    Experience: 5 years
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    Gender: No Preference
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    Degree: Diploma
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    Apply Before: Jun 30, 2026

Job Description

What we do

Propel your artistic talent within a world-class team with innovative and inspiring artists responsible for environment, characters, and design.

What you will do

Epic Games is looking for a Senior Technical Animator passionate about expressive character movement to join the Cinematics team. Within this talented team of seasoned and emerging artists, you will collaborate with an internal team while also working with external partners. You will directly contribute to the creation of large-scale trailers related to Fortnite and other projects within Epic's intellectual properties. Joining this team means solving problems, collaborating with other artists, and continuously improving models, movements, and tools. The core of this role involves creating rigging structures, optimizing production processes, and developing tools.

What you will be responsible for

  • Create the articulation structures (rigs) for characters, accessories, and vehicles
  • Configure elements in Unreal Engine 5, including tissue simulations, physics, and visual blueprints.
  • Collaborate with modelers and animators to ensure a smooth production flow and the delivery of high-quality assets
  • Develop and improve production process tools in collaboration with engine and project managers to continuously optimize internal tools
  • Supervise the technical animation work for cinematic trailers, both in-house and outsourced
  • Provide support and optimization solutions to the animation team, including performance improvements, engine stability, bug fixes related to control structures and constraints, and optimization of working methods
  • Design selection interfaces for the animation team

What we are looking for

  • Extensive experience in creating joint structures in Unreal Engine
  • Portfolio demonstrating the creation of articulation structures for a variety of characters, bipeds, and creatures, including faces
  • A keen eye for aesthetic detail, particularly regarding distortion and physical movements of characters
  • Good knowledge of the art production process in Unreal Engine 5
  • A positive person with excellent written communication and teamwork skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Experience in developing processes and tools related to character creation

Benefits

We pay 100% of the premiums associated with employee benefits for both employees and their dependents, and offer supplemental coverage for medical, dental, and vision care, critical illness, telemedicine, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and long-term disability insurance. We also offer a weekly short-term disability allowance and a competitive employer-matched retirement savings plan. In addition to the employee assistance program, we offer a comprehensive mental health program through Modern Health, an organization that provides free therapy and coaching services to employees and their dependents.

Company Overview

New York, New York, United States of America

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina and has dozens of offices worldwide. Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine tec... Read More

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