Motion Design Engineer

What you'll do

• Animate characters, emotes, UI transitions, rewards, and gameplay effects; build rigs and interactive state machines.
• Prototype motion concepts, optimize assets for real-time playback, and implement and debug animations with product designers and engineers.
• Build and document pipelines and motion systems for consistent, production-ready animation.

What they ask for

• At least 3 years across character animation, motion design, technical art, or front-end/game development.
• Portfolio focused on product, games, or interactive experiences, including at least one real-time or interactive piece built independently.
• Proficiency with animation tools such as After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D, or Rive; experience building state-driven animation.
• Working coding skills in at least one of JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, or Kotlin; able to work in person at the NYC office.

Nice to have

• Illustration or character design; 3D experience including shaders or procedural animation.
• Lip-sync or audio-driven animation, animation APIs, or background in games, animated film, or AI companion products.

Pay

$110K – $200K USD base salary

Tools

After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D, Rive, Unity, Spine, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift

AI focus

Create interactive state machines driven in part by AI-generated moods.