• Work closely with animators, character artists, and gameplay engineers to ensure efficient workflows and high-fidelity animated content. • Translate the technical requirements of the animation team into actionable solutions for engineering and pipeline teams. • Diagnose and resolve complex animation-related issues including rig behavior, deformation quality, skeletal hierarchies, retargeting, and physics performance. • Design, build, and maintain modular, animator-friendly rigs for characters, creatures, props, facial animation, and mechanical assets. • Implement and refine physics-based systems including ragdoll setups, cloth simulation, spline dynamics, secondary motion, and procedural animation solutions. • Develop scalable animation blueprints, state machines, blend trees, and control rigs in Unreal or Unity. • Integrate motion capture data, build retargeting pipelines, and ensure consistent motion quality across diverse character sets. • Create and maintain tools, scripts, and automated pipelines that improve animation productivity and asset quality. • Build validation tools to enforce naming conventions, skeleton standards, rig integrity, and performance budgets. • Profile and optimise animation systems, rig performance, runtime solvers, and physics setups to work efficiently within hardware constraints. • Participate in cross-discipline R&D to establish best practices for real-time deformation, procedural animation, and advanced simulation workflows.