Senior Robot Animator
- Pay
- $100,000 – $300,000 per year
- Location
- San Mateo, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Listed
- 31 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Maya
- keyframe animation
- rigging
- motion capture editing and retargeting
Also useful
- Blender
- simulation
- rigid-body dynamics
Position Overview
We're looking for a Senior Robot Animator to help bring our robots to life. In this role, you'll work closely with our robotics, simulation, and hardware teams to rig, animate, and refine motion that runs both in simulation and on physical machines, supporting a range of teams and programs across the company. This is an animation-first role focused on the computer graphics side of motion - rigging, keyframe animation, body mechanics, and the editing and retargeting of captured data. Strong candidates pair animation craft with an intuition for what a physical robot can actually execute.
Responsibilities
- Author robot motion in Maya (or Blender) using keyframe, procedural, and capture-based techniques
- Work with our robotics engineers to take motion from digital content creation (DCC) to real hardware
- Choreograph and time performances, including multi-robot sequences and motion cut to music or camera
- Deliver finished rendered work as well as sequences performed by the machines themselves
- Build motion libraries and retargeting that support our simulation and machine learning work
- Partner with our hardware teams on previz and range-of-motion studies that inform design
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years animating professionally in film/VFX, games, or robotics, or equivalent senior-level experience - demo reel required
- Expert keyframe animation with a strong sense of weight, timing, and body mechanics
- Rigging experience with mechanical or articulated characters: constraints, IK/FK, joint limits, mechanism-accurate setups
- Comfortable cleaning, editing, and retargeting motion capture onto non-human skeletons
- Background working with humanoid or robotic characters in simulation or the real world
- Familiarity with controls/rigid-body dynamics/simulation is a plus
Pay and benefits
Base Salary Range $100,000—$300,000 USD
Company Overview
At Skild AI, we are building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence that is robust and adapts to unseen scenarios without failing. We believe massive scale through data-driven machine learning is the key to unlocking these capabilities for the widespread deployment of robots within society. Our team consists of individuals with varying levels of experience and backgrounds, from new graduates to domain experts.
Relevant industry experience is important, but ultimately less so than your demonstrated abilities and attitude. We are looking for passionate individuals who are eager to explore uncharted waters and contribute to our innovative projects.
From Skild AI's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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The Senior Robot Animator posting at Skild AI states compensation of $100,000 – $300,000 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Skild AI's official career site.
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