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Apple Character Technical Director- Generative AI Experiences Software United States, California, Cupertino 728555382
08.06.2025
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As a member of the team, you will work with a small team of highly skilled engineers to bring new experiences to Apple’s diverse range of hardware, software, and original content products. This position requires a self-motivated Character Technical Director with strong interpersonal skills to handle responsibilities including:
- Collaborate with engineering, animators, and design teams to create new character rigs for animation
- Provide rigging support
- Collaborate to design and develop our character animation pipeline
- Create tools and plug-ins in Maya and other platforms
- Establish and improve workflows for digital artists across product development stages
- Integrate internal tools and workflows with existing systems and applications
- Expert-level knowledge of Autodesk Maya and Python
- Experience with facial rigging, joint systems, blend shape setups, and hybrid rigs
- Experience making tools for animators, designers and other digital artists
- Understanding of game animation pipelines
- Experience working with file version control systems such as git
- Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills
- Ability to balance competing needs and priorities
- Link to portfolio that demonstrates your hands-on expertise, technical achievements, and problem solving skills.
- Experience working with modular or fully scripted rigging systems on large VFX or feature animation projects
- Game development platform experience like Unity, Unreal, Godot or equivalent
- Blender experience
- Swift experience
Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
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