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About the Role

LEGO Digital Play is building the future of the LEGO brand in digital entertainment, creating new, innovative, and wholly-owned experiences. We are seeking a Senior Technical Animator to join our Central Technology team, supporting exploratory research into creative systems and their application to digital LEGO building. This is a founding, hands-on role at the intersection of Character Rigging, DCC and Engine Tooling, and Research.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain robust, modular, and reusable rigs.
Develop technical animation systems for real-time use, including procedural animation, secondary motion, IK and constraint setups, and state-driven runtime behavior.
Establish and iterate on rigging and animation pipelines and tooling across DCC applications and game engines, ensuring reliable DCC-to-engine animation turnaround.
Act as the technical animation counterpart to engineering and research, advising on feasibility, constraints, and integration paths for rigging and animation into interactive systems.
Prototype animation mechanics and in-engine interactions to support rapid experimentation, contributing prototype-level implementations.
Navigate ambiguity independently and raise the technical bar through reviews and shared practice, communicating trade-offs and decisions clearly.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM field, Games Art and Design, or equivalent practical experience.
Senior-level technical animator or technical artist with a deep rigging focus, demonstrating strong autonomy and comfort in loosely defined problem spaces.
Deep, hands-on rigging expertise spanning character and mechanical rigging, and their integration in interactive environments.
Strong technical animation skills, including procedural and runtime animation systems, secondary motion, and their runtime requirements.
Fluent in at least one DCC application and its procedural and rigging tools (Autodesk Maya or Side Effects Houdini preferred).
Comfortable with at least one game engine and DCC-to-engine asset and animation turnaround (Unity or Unreal Engine), including their animation and rigging runtime systems.
Extensive experience in the games or visual effects industry, able to move fluidly between data, tooling, rigs, assets, and game engines.
Pragmatic, exploratory mindset, biased toward prototyping, iteration, learning, and sharing findings.
Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including research, product, and studio partners.
Comfortable operating in early-stage environments where standards and practices are still being established.

Skills

Character Rigging
DCC Tooling
Engine Tooling
Research
Procedural Animation
Secondary Motion
IK and Constraint Setups
State-driven Runtime Behavior
Autodesk Maya
Side Effects Houdini
Unity
Unreal Engine
ML-driven Animation
Data-driven Animation
Motion Capture
Motion Matching
Learned Animation Systems
Plugin Development
Tool Development
Real-time VFX
Procedural Content
Mobile Development
Technical Standards Definition
Mentoring

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior-level

Education Level

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, STEM field, Games Art and Design, or equivalent practical experience.

About the Company

LEGO Digital Play will bring the LEGO brand into digital entertainment in new, innovative, and wholly-owned ways.
Our mission is to ensure the LEGO Brand remains as powerfully a part of children’s lives in the coming decades as it has ever been.
We aim to reach every kid on the planet, their parents, and adult fans of LEGO—and provide them with meaningful, magical, and playful new experiences.
We are at the earliest phases of this new company, offering a unique opportunity to build a new entity for the world's most beloved and trusted brand.
Our culture is open, collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and creatively vibrant.
The Central Technology team is the engineering heart of LEGO Digital Play, a venture within the LEGO ecosystem dedicated to pioneering creative and joyful digital experiences.
Our teams build the foundational platforms, tools, and capabilities that power LEGO's digital future.
We work at the intersection of play, applied AI, and developer tooling to bring the LEGO brand to a new generation of digital builders.
It's a rare opportunity to shape something from the ground up within one of the world's most loved brands.