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Senior Animator

About Applied

Autonomy is one of the leading technological advances of this century that will come to impact our lives. The work you'll do at Applied will meaningfully accelerate the efforts of the top autonomy teams in the world. At Applied, you will have a unique perspective on the development of cutting-edge technology while working with major players across the industry and the globe.

Applied Intuition provides software solutions to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale. The company's suite of simulation, validation, and drive log management software enables development teams to create thousands of scenarios in minutes, run simulations at scale, and verify and validate algorithms for production deployment. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Los Angeles, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Munich, Stockholm, Seoul, and Tokyo, Applied consists of software, robotics, and automotive experts with experiences from top global companies. Leading autonomy programs and 17 of the top 20 global OEMs use Applied's solutions to bring autonomy to market faster.

About the role

We're looking for an experienced 3D animator to drive the realism, complexity, and diversity of the animations used to generate synthetic data in our simulation tools. These animations ensure that humans, vehicles, and other actors in the simulation closely represent the real world while also having the diversity required to avoid overfitting machine learning models trained on the synthetic data. This position will join an existing team of talented engineers and artists with backgrounds in autonomous systems, robotics, gaming and consumer products. Learn more about creating simulations for autonomous vehicles here.

At Applied, you will:

Create realistic animations of humans executing complex actions, including entering/exiting vehicles, using phones, and biking
Create realistic animations of animals walking, running, and flying
Design a system that permutes animations to increase diversity while maintaining realism

We're looking for someone who has:

Experience with game animation, ideally in gameplay animation
Experience with layered animation systems (we cannot create unique animations for everything so breaking down the work into steps and phases is crucial)
Experience with motion capture and hand-animated content
Experience with complex interactions (getting in and outside vehicles, intercharacter interactions, picking up and carrying objects, etc.)

Nice to have:

Experience with a game that has people entering/exiting vehicles
Experience with building procedural animation systems
Experience with rigging
Experience with animation blending
Experience with Unreal Engine and Animation Blueprints

The salary range for this position is $65,000 USD to $400,000 USD annually. This salary range is an estimate, and the actual salary may vary based on the Company's compensation practices.

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Applicants will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 upon commencing employment. Reasonable accommodations will be considered on a case-by-case basis for exemptions to this requirement in accordance with applicable federal and state law. Applicants should be aware that for external-facing roles that involve close contact with Company employees or other third parties on the Company's premises, accommodations that involve remaining unvaccinated against COVID-19 may not be deemed reasonable. The Company will engage in the interactive process on an individualized basis taking into account the particular position.

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