Senior Character Technical Artist

About the job

We are looking for a Senior Character Technical Artist to help us push the boundaries of digital human realism and physical accuracy in real-time fashion try-ons. You will lead rigging, deformation, and character system development, working closely with our ML and 3D teams to bring lifelike digital avatars to life at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement high-fidelity character rigs with anatomically accurate deformation systems.

• Develop advanced skinning, blend shape, and pose-based deformation techniques for digital humans.

• Build custom tooling and automation pipelines for rigging and character setup in real-time environments.

• Integrate character rigs into Unreal Engine pipelines, ensuring seamless runtime performance and visual quality.

• Collaborate with machine learning and simulation teams to refine data-driven deformation workflows.

• Maintain efficient asset pipelines, supporting high-throughput production of avatar variations.

• Prototype and deploy runtime customisation systems for multi-character avatar environments.

Requirements:

• Strong foundation in human anatomy, body morphology, and deformation techniques.

• Expert knowledge of rigging workflows, including topological principles, skinning, and weight painting.

• Deep experience with Unreal Engine, especially in pose-based deformation, blend shapes, and animation integration.

• Proficiency in Python scripting (ideally in Blender) for tool creation and pipeline automation.

• Solid grasp of mathematics for data-driven workflows such Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and RBF kernels.

• Familiarity with animation blending, state machines, and runtime retargeting in real-time engines.

• Ability to design scalable custom authoring tools for rigging and deformation setup.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with machine learning models in 3D graphics or avatar contexts.

• Understanding of data pipelines for morph target generation or deformation refinement.

• Exposure to multi-character avatar systems or runtime customisation techniques.

• Familiarity with cloth or soft-body simulation pipelines is a plus.

What working with CATCHES is like:

• Fully remote-first, async-friendly, with optional co-working allowances.

• High-trust, low-bureaucracy environment that values experimentation and shipping.

• Early influence on product, architecture and engineering culture.

• A small, experienced team that cares about sustainable pace.

• Cutting-edge tech, luxury-fashion creativity, and game-industry scale challenges combined.

What working with CATCHES is like:

• Fully remote-first, async-friendly, with optional co-working allowances.

• High-trust, low-bureaucracy environment that values experimentation and shipping.

• Early influence on product, architecture and engineering culture.

• A small, experienced team that cares about sustainable pace.

• Cutting-edge tech, luxury-fashion creativity, and game-industry scale challenges combined.