Amazon.com Services LLC

Software Development, subsidiaries

DesignTechnologist,RobotAnimation

$158–214k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Design Technologist, Robot Animation at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Robot animation, Character animation, Motion design, Technical animation. Author expressive robot animations. Articulate robot personality”

Industry & Context.

Software Development, subsidiaries
Problems you'll solve

Work within constraints; Adapt to joint constraints

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years professional experience, Character animation experience, Motion design experience, Technical animation experience, Expressive personality-driven motion demo reel, Scripting ability in Python, Tooling experience, Pipeline integration experience, Procedural animation experience, Experience within technical constraints, Real-time engines experience, Joint physics limits experience, Hardware platforms experience, 3D Studio Max experience, Maya experience, Photoshop experience, Zbrush experience, Substance experience, Unreal experience, Blender experience

Nice to Have

Motion capture experience, Directing motion capture sessions, Cleaning motion capture data, Retargeting motion capture data, Animating for stylized characters, Familiarity with real-time animation systems, Experience with robotics, Experience with physical characters, Experience with animatronics, Film background, Games background, Themed entertainment background

What You'll Do.

Author expressive robot animations

Articulate robot personality

Create locomotion styles

Create conversational gestures

Create emotional reactions

Create interactive behaviors

Partner with HRI researchers

Partner with robotics engineers

Understand robot physical capabilities

Understand interaction needs

Work with motion capture

Create base animations

Adapt animations for robot form factor

Refine animations for joint constraints

Develop tools for animation authoring

Develop workflows for animation authoring

Integrate with robot behavior pipeline

Test animations on real hardware

Iterate based on in-person feedback

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

HRI researchers; Robotics engineers

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