Amazon
Principal Product Designer, Robot Animation and Character, Fauna
$163K–$285K
New York, NY · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of professional experience in character animation.
About the job
Defines the robot’s personality and expressive motion, then creates and refines character animations for real-world hardware.
What you'll do
- Create key performances and an expressive motion vocabulary, from concept through final animation.
- Define and maintain the robot’s personality and behavioral consistency across animations.
- Test and refine performances on hardware, adapting motion to the robot’s form and constraints.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of professional experience in character animation.
- A reel demonstrating authorship of character and personality through motion.
- Mastery of animation craft across characters and emotional registers.
- Experience taking a character from concept through polished animation and working within production or technical constraints.
Nice to have
- Animation background in feature, episodic, games, or themed entertainment.
- Experience with non-human or physically embodied characters, motion capture, real-time systems, or defining character for a new product or franchise.
Pay
162,600.00 - 284,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
motion capture
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