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Gym Class · 4 months ago

Animation Engineer (Senior / Staff / Principal)

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$160K/yr - $250K/yr
date5+ years exp

Gym Class is the top rated social sports game on Meta Quest, and they are seeking a talented Animation Engineer to lead the future of character motion, responsiveness, and expressiveness across their ecosystem. The role involves designing and shipping real-time animation systems for VR and mobile avatars and AI characters in Unity, while collaborating with various teams to ensure seamless integration with game mechanics.

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Responsibilities

Design, build, and ship real-time animation systems for VR and mobile avatars and AI characters in Unity
Architect core animation logic (state machines, blend trees) with clean integration of IK and procedural layers
Deliver believable movement via seamless transitions between clips, IK, physics/locomotion, and interaction cues
Optimize for performance at scale: utilize a variety of methods to hit frame-rate targets on a wide device range
Own the animation roadmap, making pragmatic quality-vs-velocity tradeoffs aligned to company goals and upcoming modes/features
Partner across disciplines (gameplay, AI, tech art) to land features end-to-end and ensure animation systems play nicely with game mechanics

Qualification

UnityC#Animation systemsIK setupMobile/VR performanceDebuggingProduct sensePassion for gamingProblem-solving

Required

5+ years building and shipping games with Unity + C#
Proven delivery of runtime animation systems (Animator Graphs, state machines, blending/layering, events, root motion)
Hands-on IK setup and runtime integration (e.g., Unity Animation Rigging, FinalIK, or custom)
Mobile/VR performance expertise: profiling (Profiler, Frame Debugger, GPU tools), data management, memory/CPU/GPU tradeoffs
Strong debugging, problem-solving, and product sense; you sweat details and ship
Shipped title(s) reaching a meaningful audience (mobile or social preferred)

Preferred

Performance-oriented patterns and multiplayer-friendly animation sync
AI-assisted/procedural animation (motion matching, pose estimation, predictive blending)
Physics-informed animation (ragdoll stabilization, locomotion controllers)
Passion for social gaming and pushing expression in VR + mobile

Benefits

Equity
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
401k retirement plan with matching

Company

Gym Class

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Gym Class is a virtual reality basketball app on meta quest app lab.
dateFounded in 2021
location
Los Angeles, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://gymclassvr.com/

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$8M
Key Investors
Andreessen Horowitz
2022-08-02Seed· $8M

Leadership Team

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Justin Hubert
Co-founder
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