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About the Role

We are seeking a senior game development expert with deep AAA production experience to strengthen co-development and technical partnerships between Tencent and its overseas investment and partner studios. This role focuses on AI-enabled asset creation, asset performance optimization, asset visual fidelity, and animation aspects like skeleton design, rigging, and physics-based animation.

Responsibilities

• Participate in co-development projects, providing senior expertise in AI-enabled asset production, optimization, visual quality, skeleton design, rigging, and physics-based animation.
• Make AI-driven asset and animation improvement a central pillar of technical collaboration, identifying opportunities across the asset lifecycle and animation disciplines.
• Lead or contribute to proof-of-concept projects integrating AI tools with existing authoring tools, animation environments, physics engines, and game engines.
• Evaluate the suitability, feasibility, and value of AI solutions for asset and animation challenges, defining measurable metrics.
• Work closely with various stakeholders to translate creative and production requirements into practical, measurable solutions focused on assets and animation.
• Drive the transition of successful AI experiments into daily production workflows, collecting feedback and refining pipelines.
• Establish human-review and quality-control mechanisms for AI-assisted workflows, ensuring consistency, fidelity, plausibility, performance, and security.
• Lead technical investigations and solution designs for complex asset production and animation challenges.
• Bridge overseas studio requirements with Tencent’s internal AI capabilities and technology stacks.
• Document reusable AI use cases, pipeline standards, best practices, and evaluation methods, sharing knowledge through workshops and reviews.
• Monitor trends in generative AI, neural rendering, and related fields, assessing their practical value for AAA production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Graphics, Digital Media, Game Development, Art and Design, Animation, Software Engineering or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
• At least 8 years of professional experience in technical art, animation technology or a closely related discipline, with significant exposure to AAA asset and animation pipelines.
• Experience operating as a Senior Technical Artist, Lead Technical Artist, Technical Art Director, Animation Pipeline Lead, Rigging Lead or equivalent senior role with a clear focus on assets and/or animation.
• Proven development experience on a recognised AAA game project, including at least one shipped AAA title where you were directly responsible for asset optimization, rigging, or physics-animation workflows.
• Strong understanding of the complete AAA asset and animation lifecycle, from initial modelling and rigging, through version control and validation, to engine integration, performance profiling and runtime optimization.
• Strong interest in generative AI, machine learning and intelligent automation, especially as applied to asset generation, asset optimization, auto-rigging, motion synthesis, deformation prediction and physics simulation.
• Ability to identify high-value AI opportunities rooted in real asset and animation production challenges and progress them through proof-of-concept, workflow design, tool integration and production adoption.
• Strong experience with Unreal Engine or another major game engine, including real-time rendering, asset management, animation blueprints, physics assets and cross-platform performance constraints.
• Proficiency in Blender or Maya; working knowledge of Houdini is a plus.
• Experience with tools development or workflow automation using Python, C++, Blueprint or equivalent, particularly for asset processing, rigging automation or physics pipeline tools.
• Strong problem-solving, solution design and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to balance asset quality, animation expressiveness, engineering feasibility and production efficiency.
• Excellent English communication skills, able to lead technical discussions, conduct solution reviews, prepare documentation and collaborate effectively in an international environment.
• Willingness to work across regions and time zones and to travel to partner studios in Europe or other locations when required.
• Deep expertise in several of the following areas: AAA asset production pipelines, asset visual quality and efficiency, skeleton design and character/creature rigging, skinning and deformation, physics-based animation.

Skills

• AI-enabled asset production
• Asset performance optimization
• Asset visual quality
• Skeleton design
• Rigging
• Physics-based animation
• Generative AI
• Machine learning
• Intelligent automation
• Asset generation
• Asset optimization
• Auto-rigging
• Motion synthesis
• Deformation prediction
• Physics simulation
• Unreal Engine
• Real-time rendering
• Asset management
• Animation blueprints
• Physics assets
• Cross-platform performance constraints
• Blender
• Maya
• Houdini
• Python
• C++
• Blueprint
• Tools development
• Workflow automation
• Problem-solving
• Solution design
• Stakeholder management
• English communication

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree or above

About the Company

• Tencent Overseas IT has the mission to empower Tencent’s rapid global growth with future ready, global IT platforms, applications and services.
• We are chartered to lead the Overseas IT strategy, architecture, roadmap and execution.
• Satisfying our internal/external customers and becoming a world class global IT team are our top aspirations.

Equal Opportunity

• As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community.
• We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.