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Senior Software Engineer - Robot Animation

Netpace
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/22/2025

Description :

Our project is developing a new class of robotic platforms for social interaction. The project is at an exciting early stage where you can have significant strategic impact on a potentially massive market opportunity. As a Robot Animation Engineer, you will be innovating at the frontier between art and engineering to develop solutions that achieve creative and technical product objectives. Your job will bridge ideas, people, and implementations in the exciting and unexplored space of social human-robot interaction systems. You will work with a global cross-disciplinary team of designers, hardware engineers, and software engineers in order to rapidly prototype and evaluate interaction concepts as well as take them to production.

Job Responsibilities

Architect and implement Client capabilities for expressive multimodal robot behavior including intelligent physical motion and 2D animation

Research and evaluate software frameworks to apply to robot behavior prototyping and production

Develop and maintain tools and pipelines for teams of artists and engineers to create engaging content for interactive robotics systems

Develop procedural art and animation assets for interaction concept prototypes

Participate in brainstorming sessions on morphology and motion design

Collaborate with cross-disciplinary and multi-cultural team of designers, hardware engineers, and software engineers to design solutions

Work independently and in a self-directed manner to deliver on schedule

Requirements for position :

B.S. in Computer Science, Computational Media, or similar field

5 years of professional software experience (preferably in graphics, gaming, or media production)

Experience developing industry pipelines and tools for art, animation, and / or game production

Strong grasp of mathematics for 2D and 3D animation and graphics (e.g. geometry, linear algebra, kinematics, physics)

Experience collaborating with designers to achieve creative and aesthetic objectives

Strong systems thinking, and ability to switch between creative and technical tasks

Strong written and spoken communication skills

Work authorization in the US (no H1B or green card sponsorship)

Willingness to travel internationally and work across time zones

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