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Keywords Studios

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Gaming • Media • Artificial Intelligence

Keywords Studios is the #1 global games services provider, offering an end-to-end platform supercharged by technology. They deliver technical and creative solutions to the global video games industry, with services including game development, art services, audio development, QA testing, localization, marketing services, and player engagement. Keywords Studios also works on accessibility services, content globalization, and advanced AI & technology solutions. Founded on decades of experience, they are committed to responsible business practices and provide industry-wide insights for unparalleled experiences to audiences around the world.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1998

🎮 Gaming

📱 Media

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📋 Description

• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with: Python, C#, MEL, PyMEL, MAXScript, Blueprints (Unreal), Editor Tools (Unity) • Understanding of runtime animation systems, rig solvers, and physics components • Familiarity with shader scripting (HLSL/GLSL) is a plus, particularly for deformation or skinning R&D • Character & Creature Rigging • Cloth / Hair / Ragdoll / Physics Setup • Animation Pipeline Development • Procedural Animation & Secondary Motion • Performance Profiling & Optimisation • Motion Capture Integration • Tool & Workflow Development

🏖️ Benefits

• Only those with relevant working rights for Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia will be considered. • Sponsorship and relocation is not being offered as part of this package. • Our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Commitment: Keywords Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. If you require any adjustments during the process please let us know in your application. We are committed to creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion, respect and integrity, customer focus, and innovation. We especially welcome applications from candidates of underrepresented groups in the industry. • PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY • By providing your information in this application, you understand that we will collect and process your information in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice. For more information, please see our Applicant Privacy Notice at https://www.keywordsstudios.com/en/applicant-privacy-notice.