Senior Unreal Engine Animation Programmer

Unreal Engine 5 animation systems are central to this Senior Animation Programmer role at Arcanaut Studios. The position is full-time, remote friendly, and based in British Columbia or Alberta.

As a senior programmer, you will extend runtime systems, tool chains, and procedural technologies for a AAA sci-fi action RPG. Your work will support character movement, combat mechanics, and fluid physics. You will collaborate with technical animators, gameplay, and cinema tics.

• Architect and optimize custom Unreal Engine 5 animation systems
• Implement motion matching and machine learning driven locomotion
• Maintain procedural systems, state machines, and animation graphs
• Profile C++ performance using Unreal Insights and profiling tools
• Collaborate on skeletal mesh and asset ingest pipelines

• Five or more years of professional game development experience
• AAA title shipping or support experience, preferably RPG
• Mastery of C++ within the Unreal Engine ecosystem
• Strong understanding of three dimensional mathematics
• Hands on UE5 Toolset experience with Live Link and Sequencer

Apply senior Unreal Engine 5 animation programming expertise to runtime systems, procedural technology, and character performance.