Motion Mechanics Engineer

Rokoko is a rapidly growing tech startup providing motion capture and animation tools motion for the global entertainment industry. Our customers include global top tier game, film, AR/VR and VFX producers as well as thousands of indie creators making unique content. Rokoko is looking to expand our development team to build even better and more intuitive software animation tools for our creative users worldwide.

We are looking for a skilled and passionate Motion Mechanics Engineer to join our growing team in Athens. You will be working closely with our greek and danish product development team and your main responsibility will be to take state-of-the-art research at the junction of human motion mechanics, bio-mechanics, and character animation and implement it into products.

Responsibilities:

• Stay up to date with the latest technical developments in the fields of human (inverse) kinematics, motion analysis, character animation, bio-mechanical modeling / simulation and optimisation
• Implement state of the art research in these fields into products for character animation software
• Work with a highly skilled team of machine learning engineers, researchers and software developers to support internal research and development

Requirements:

• MSc in either the field of robotics, computer science, mechanical engineering or similar.
• Strong proficiency in programming (c/c++, python).
• Knowledge of kinematics, especially of the human body.
• Experience with physics simulation algorithms.
• 3+ years of provable experience in a similar position, but entry level applications will be considered if there is provable relevant project experience.
• Preferably experience with using and processing motion capture data.
• Preferably experience with machine learning/data driven methods.
• Preferably experience in working with physics simulation.
• It’s a plus if you have been working within gaming and/or the creative industries before.

What we offer
Rokoko is a tech startup with offices in the heart of Copenhagen, San Francisco and Athens. We share a vision of more intuitive and natural ways to be digitally present. We are a happy mixed bunch of creatives, tech nerds, world-class software and hardware engineers, 3D artists, business people, one philosopher, one idealist, thousands of motion sensors, and a hula hoop.

We do things differently and dare to be human and learn from our mistakes. We have fun and respect each other while daring to take risks in our pursuit of greatness. We don’t make tech for the sake of tech, but want to help those who think of tech as an obstacle to work with it in a creative and intuitive way.

We are growing fast and you will be given a lot of responsibility and freedom to join the ride and become a central part of the team, we offer a competitive salary and a great working culture.