$143,700 – $215,500
Listed on Bend Studio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead a character tools engineering team at PlayStation, building and optimizing tools for character creation, rigging, and animation workflows. This role suits experienced technical engineers who want to bridge game development pipelines with emerging AI/ML capabilities and mentor artists and engineers on character technology systems.
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What they ask for
Required
- 10+ years in game development studio or creating artist-facing tools in production
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Graphic Art or equivalent experience
- Extensive Maya experience with rigging knowledge
- Capable of writing and debugging C++
- Experience developing and deploying character pipeline tools
- Strong understanding of deformation and mesh processing
- Experience leveraging agentic AI models
- Familiarity with game editors and DCC to real-time environment workflows
Nice to have
- Strong Python programming and PyQt/Pyside experience
- MotionBuilder experience
- Houdini experience
- HLSL and MaterialX knowledge
- Other programming languages beyond C++
- Perforce, Git, Confluence experience
- Photogrammetry exposure
- Motion capture or performance capture experience
- Familiarity with character rigging, gameplay animation, and cinematic animation industry trends