TDiA Trainee

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ART

What We Do

Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.

TDIA TRAINEE

What You'll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Technical Designer in Animation (TDiA) Trainee to join our team working across various animation systems. As a TDiA Trainee, you will use your animation sense and technical understanding of character animation to design and create gameplay animation systems that facilitate appealing, high-quality character motion. You will work closely with Animation, Design, and Engineering colleagues to ensure the animation pipeline operates smoothly and efficiently.

In this role, you will

Learn about the creation of animation behavior tools/techniques/philosophies that allow the building of complex movement systems

Learn to design and implement animation state machines/behaviors and runtime solutions

Work closely with the Animation, Design, and Engineering departments to analyze, troubleshoot, and solve in-game animation implementation issues and animation-related technical challenges

Closely collaborate with the animation leadership to maintain the style and quality bar for animations in the game

What we're looking for

Self-motivation, a strong work ethic, and the ability to work well with the team

Knowledge and experience using animation centric tooling in Unreal Engine

Experience with Animation Blueprints, Montages, State Machines, etc.

Knowledge or experience creating animations

Strong sense of motion and animation — understand how movement, timing, and transitions enhance gameplay feel and player experience

Perseverance when facing frustration, someone who understands that it's expected to not get the assignment right in the first attempts, but keep trying. Also, that receives feedback well, adjusts and adapts. No space for ego

Strong communicator. Quick and effective when reaching out to the team to solve problems, knows when a task is tricky enough to reach for senior teammates. Also ability to effectively sync information with multiple teams (engineering, animation) and manage to keep attention to multiple aspects at same time

This trainee program has a flexible start date in 2026. 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 trainee program. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit epicgames.com/earlycareers. This is going to be Epic!

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

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