Senior Robot Animator

The role

You will rig, animate, and refine motion for robots in simulation and on physical machines. You will work with robotics, simulation, and hardware teams to author motion and build motion libraries.

What you will do

• Author robot motion in Maya or Blender using keyframe, procedural, and capture-based techniques
• Work with robotics engineers to take motion from digital content creation to real hardware
• Choreograph and time performances, including multi-robot sequences and motion cut to music or camera
• Deliver finished rendered work and sequences performed by the machines themselves
• Build motion libraries and retargeting that support simulation and machine learning work
• Partner with hardware teams on previz and range-of-motion studies

Required qualifications

• Demo reel required

Nice to have

• 5+ years animating professionally in film/VFX, games, or robotics, or equivalent senior-level experience
• Expert keyframe animation with a strong sense of weight, timing, and body mechanics
• Rigging experience with mechanical or articulated characters: constraints, IK/FK, joint limits, mechanism-accurate setups
• Comfortable cleaning, editing, and retargeting motion capture onto non-human skeletons
• Background working with humanoid or robotic characters in simulation or the real world
• Familiarity with controls/rigid-body dynamics/simulation

About the company

Skild AI is building general purpose robotic intelligence using data-driven machine learning. The team consists of individuals from new graduates to domain experts.