Careers at Create Talent Group

Our client is a renowned independent game studio with a strong history of producing award-winning, genre-defining titles enjoyed by millions of players worldwide. Operating with artistic autonomy under a major global interactive media organization, our team is dedicated to pushing creative boundaries. We are committed to an inclusive, transparent, and balanced studio culture where every team member is empowered to do their best work.

Working under the direction of the Technical Art Director and in close alignment with Animation Leadership, you will play an integral role in architecting and expanding our character pipeline for an ambitious, unannounced project.

Why Work With Us?

• Proven Creative Direction: Collaborate with seasoned game directors who bring a sharp, confident artistic vision to production.
• Supportive Environment: Work alongside a highly skilled, cross-disciplinary team that values mutual trust, craftsmanship, and open dialogue.
• Creative Empowerment: Gain meaningful ownership over your domain, working in a flexible atmosphere free from micro-management.
• Sustainable Pace: We prioritize healthy team growth and long-term project stability, actively avoiding sudden crunch-driven hiring or downsizing.

Key Responsibilities

• Define standards and optimize pipelines for secondary motion, balancing keyframed setups with dynamic physics simulations.
• Construct, tune, and refine Unreal Engine Control Rigs, node constraints, and real-time rigging frameworks for diverse character models.
• Engineer robust workflows for complex character-object interactions, including weapon/prop attachment setups and multi-actor contact points.
• Author and upkeep Unreal Engine animation assets, covering Anim Blueprints, state transition logic, blend masks, custom notifies, and procedural nodes.
• Write and maintain custom utility tools in Maya and Unreal Engine to accelerate daily animation workflows.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 5+ years in technical art, with credit on at least one major shipped project (engine experience with Unreal preferred).
• 3+ years directly rigging character models within an active production setting.
• 3+ years utilizing Maya (or comparable 3D software suites) in a studio pipeline.
• 3+ years scripting with Python, ideally including experience with the Unreal Engine Python API.
• 1+ year working hands-on with in-engine Control Rigs, cloth/physics dynamics, and animation blueprints.
• Deep understanding of animation state trees, blend spaces, inverse kinematics (IK), and procedural motion techniques.
• Self-directed & proactive: Capable of translating high-level direction into clear, functional technical solutions with minimal supervision.
• Collaborative mindset: Excellent communication skills with a focus on raising technical quality while maintaining strong working relationships.

Our client is a premier, independent game development team known for crafting critically acclaimed, immersive gaming experiences. Operating with creative freedom alongside a global parent publisher, their mission centers on building high-impact, pioneering titles. Their studio environment is driven by mutual trust, open communication, team accountability, and creative execution.

In this role, you will work closely with technical leadership to integrate core gameplay frameworks with reliable, scalable online infrastructure and services.

Key Benefits & Culture

• Guided Strategic Direction: Collaborate with proven industry veterans who bring clear, long-term focus to game development.
• Supportive Environment: Work alongside a skilled collective of developers who value shared growth and technical craft.
• High Operational Autonomy: Take genuine ownership of major systems in an environment free from micro-management.
• Sustainable Pace: We prioritize balanced production schedules, avoiding unsustainable hiring spikes or sudden downsizings.

Core Duties

• Technical ownership and ongoing maintenance of game-to-cloud server integrations built within Unreal Engine.
• Implementation and refinement of networked platform SDKs, leveraging modern Web/API standards and strongly-typed scripts.
• Development of online multiplayer services, including:
• • • Hybrid lobby setups (managing dedicated cloud servers alongside direct host/P2P connections).
    • Data persistence pipelines for player account profiles, unlocked items, and progression tracks.
    • Live-ops gameplay features such as player metrics, inventory databases, and timed operational events.
• Collaboration with interface engineers to ensure smooth synchronization between online microservices and player HUD/menus.
• Technical alignment with systems designers to map out data schema, server payload structures, and cloud logic.
• Diagnostic troubleshooting across the complete stack, resolving performance bottlenecks between client builds and remote services.
• Creation of clear technical documentation covering server workflows, network logic, and subsystem architectures.

Required Experience

• 8+ years working professionally in online backends or networked software architecture.
• Advanced mastery of Unreal Engine architecture (UE5 familiarity ideal).
• Expert-level proficiency in C++ programming within real-time game engine environments.
• Hands-on background with cloud multiplayer frameworks (e.g., PlayFab, Pragma, or custom backend stacks).
• Proven familiarity with web development tools and server environments (Node.js, TypeScript, RESTful/OpenAPI interfaces).
• Demonstrated success deploying online features directly to live games (e.g., matchmaking queues, inventory tracking, persistent stats).
• Strong interpersonal skills: Highly self-directed, articulate, and skilled at working within cross-disciplinary teams.