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ANIMATION PROGRAMMER INTERN

What You'll Do

Epic Games Animation Runtime team is looking for a smart, creative engineering intern to join them. In this talented team of veteran and emerging engineers you’ll collaborate across teams and contribute directly to Unreal Engine and Fortnite! Joining this team means you’re motivated to seek solutions to problems and work with other engineers to make positive changes to animation runtime systems and tools. The heart of this role is building robust APIs and intuitive tools for millions of Unreal Engine users to use.

In this role, you will

• Work directly with the Unreal Engine and Fortnite animation teams to support features that will be experienced by millions of players and creators
• Learn extensive debugging techniques to help animators diagnose issues
• Working closely with the Engine team to support animation needs across Epic Games
• Animation feature development
• Working on optimizations in game
• Developing solutions to various technical challenges under deadlines

What we're looking for

• Degree work in CS or related field
• Strong C++ knowledge
• Strong math skills, especially vector math, trigonometry and use of quaternions for orientation
• Experience with 3d animation either technically through animation blueprints and low level animation systems, or directly by creating your own rigs and animations in 3d packages
• Some level of exposure / understanding with multiple core system tasks such as graphics, tools, audio/video, networking, memory handling, script compilers, I/O, etc
• UE5 Gameplay experience is preferred: basics of networking, character movement, and blueprints

This internship has a flexible start date in 2025. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit epicgames.com/earlycareers. This is going to be Epic!