Senior Software Engineer - Animation

About the Company

Level is a learning technology company dedicated to helping students build real academic and life skills with confidence and joy. We combine proven curriculum principles with world class interactive design to make meaningful practice something students want to come back to.

Responsibilities

• Animation system architecture and runtime optimization
• Skeletal animation, blending, and state machines
• Physics-based animation and procedural systems
• Animation compression and streaming
• Tool integration for animation workflows

Requirements

• 5+ years of real-time animation system development
• Deep C++ experience
• Experience with skeletal animation, inverse kinematics, and blending
• Understanding of animation mathematics and interpolation algorithms
• Performance optimization for animation-heavy scenes
• Collaboration experience with animators and technical artists

Preferred Qualifications

• Godot animation system expertise
• Motion capture integration experience
• Procedural animation techniques
• Physics simulation integration (ragdoll, cloth, etc.)