Machine learning Programmer (Character & Animation) - Rainbow Six

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Company Name: Ubisoft

We are changing how we do animation here at Ubisoft and on Rainbow Six. The injection of ML and GenAI has caused a paradigm shift in the capacity to produce high quality human like animation at a scale we could not before. By joining this team, you would be contributing to modernizing our animation tech stack with novel ML based techniques to help us make bigger, better-looking games with a heavy focus on animation quality. This role would be a step beyond RND with a focus on industrializing ML into a modern games engine. 

Responsibilities

-    Analyse existing animation tech stack and propose and implement novel approaches using machine learning techniques

-    Stay on top of the current industry developments in ML and bring them to the animation leadership for knowledge sharing

-    Execute and contribute to the existing animation roadmap for the animation team

-    Work as apart of a diverse full stack animation team to revolutionize how we make animation as a studio by industrializing pragmatic ML techniques into our animation technology stacks

-    Able to think outside of animation domain and provide ML solutions into other domains for problem solving

-    Masters or PHD in a machine learning software engineering field (or equivalent industry experience)

-    Undergaduate degree in computer science (or significant industry experience)

-    Strong 3D mathematics and calculus

-    Experience with modern game engines (unreal / unity)

-    Understanding of current novel and standard runtime and offline animation techniques for games and film

-    Innovative thinker also able to take direction

-    Excellent communication skills

-    Pragmatic and solution oriented

-    Mastery of deep learning frameworks (pytorch / keras)

-    Understanding of state of the art machine learning topics (VAEs, NERFS, GANS etc)

-    A passion for animation in games

-    C++ experience