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Character Animator - Generative AI Experiences Software Cupertino, United States of America At Apple, we strive to make great products that empower people and improve their lives. We are looking for a great Character Animator to join our diverse team of engineers, artists and designers and help us take our state of the art character animation systems to the next level. This position focuses on creating high-quality, stylized character animation with emphasis on creative expression, performance, and facial animation to push the limits of the next generation of interactive computing. This role requires a deep understanding of animation artistry, technical proficiency in Maya, and the ability to work within real-time constraints while maintaining high creative standards. Create compelling character performances using creative and stylized animation techniques Develop expressive facial animation that conveys emotion and personality Collaborate with directors and technical teams on animation pipelines and workflows Explore emerging animation technologies and techniques Work with motion capture data to create polished, performance-driven animation Ensure animation quality meets real-time performance requirements Minimum Qualifications: Solid grasp on the traditional principles of animation Experience in expressive facial animation Expert level of knowledge of Autodesk Maya Understanding of technical constraints in real-time environments Great at providing and receiving feedback Ensure animations run efficiently across target platforms and use cases, both real time with frame rate budgets and non-real time Preferred Qualifications: USD format and workflow familiarity Experience with procedural animation techniques Motion capture cleanup and performance enhancement experience Experience with real-time game engines (Unity, Unreal,

Product Manager, Core Product Redwood City, CA, Redwood City, California, United States Character.AI is building what comes after television, after gaming, after social media. We're creating a new medium-one where anyone can bring a character to life and share it with millions. Our platform is already one of the largest consumer AI products on Earth. Millions of people use Character every day to talk, play, learn, and create. Now we're building the tools and formats that will define what entertainment looks like for the next decade. The company has scaled rapidly to tens of millions of monthly active users, reached unicorn status within roughly two years, and was named Google Play's AI App of the Year, reflecting both mainstream adoption and strong cultural relevance. Product Overview The Core Product team owns the foundational experiences that define Character.AI 's identity and long-term differentiation: - Conversations: Long-form, emotionally engaging interactions powered by frontier language models. - Characters: Creation, discovery, and interaction with AI characters that feel alive and distinct. - Creative & Creator Tools: Systems that empower users and creators to expand the content ecosystem. The product challenge is not simply making AI work, but translating rapidly evolving model capabilities into polished, intuitive, and magical consumer experiences that keep users engaged for hours at a time. Role Overview: Product Manager, Core Product This role shapes the heart of Character.AI . As a Product Manager on Core Product, you will own the experiences that users spend the most time with-conversations, characters, discovery, and

Product Manager, Activation & Growth Redwood City, CA, Redwood City, California, United States Character.AI is building what comes after television, after gaming, after social media. We're creating a new medium-one where anyone can bring a character to life and share it with millions. Our platform is already one of the largest consumer AI products on Earth. Millions of people use Character every day to talk, play, learn, and create. Now we're building the tools and formats that will define what entertainment looks like for the next decade. The company has rapidly scaled to tens of millions of monthly active users, achieved unicorn status within roughly two years of launch, and has been recognized as Google Play's AI App of the Year, underscoring its cultural relevance and product momentum. Product Overview Character.AI 's core product is an immersive conversational platform where users interact with customizable AI characters across mobile and web. Key product pillars include: - AI Characters & Conversations: Deep, open-ended conversational experiences designed for long-form engagement. - Creative Tools: User-generated characters and worlds that encourage creation, remixing, and sharing. - Entertainment-Led UX: A focus on delight, emotional resonance, and repeat engagement rather than task completion. From a growth perspective, the product behaves like a hybrid of social, gaming, and subscription entertainment platforms, with strong network effects to delight and engage users. Role Overview: Product Manager, Activation & Growth This role owns the critical transition from first interaction to long-term engaged user. It sits at the center of product, data,

Lead AI & Agentic AI Architect (AI Squad Leader) Valbonne (KFR51693) posted: Posted 30+ Days Ago

AI Creator Almaty At Higgsfield AI , we're building creative tools for the next generation of storytelling. We believe AI will fundamentally change how films, videos, images, and interactive experiences are created - not by replacing creativity, but by giving creators entirely new creative leverage. Our products help people generate cinematic visuals, explore impossible ideas, and build content workflows that previously required entire teams. We're a fast-moving, product-obsessed team operating at the intersection of AI, design, and engineering. We prototype aggressively, ship fast, and care deeply about craft. Who we are looking for Everyone at Higgsfield is an A-player. We're looking for an AI Creator to join our Brand & Launch team. You: - Have exceptional creative taste and a strong understanding of commercial storytelling, branding, and internet culture. - Know how to create visually striking AI-generated content for launches, campaigns, social media, and product marketing. - Have hands-on experience with prompting, AI image/video generation tools, and fast creative iteration workflows. - Can turn rough ideas into polished visual concepts with speed and strong creative judgment. - Understand pacing, hooks, composition, trends, and what makes content perform online. - Take ownership end-to-end and constantly push for higher creative quality. - Are excited by the future of AI-native advertising, filmmaking, and creative production. What you will work on - Create AI-generated visuals and videos for product launches, campaigns, social media, and brand storytelling. - Develop creative concepts, visual directions, prompts, references, and AI workflows. - Collaborate closely with creative directors, editors,

Agentic AI Engineer Gurugram, Haryana, India Agentic AI Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Agent Genies San Francisco, San Francisco, California, U.S, Genies LA Genies is an AI avatar technology company powering the visual and embodiment layer for AI. Through the Genies SDK, their proprietary avatar framework brings AI to life as fully realized AI personas that look, think, behave, and play like living identities. Genies powers AI companion, NPC, and agent use cases across enterprise, consumer, creator, entertainment, and gaming. Genies has raised $200M from Silver Lake, BOND, and Bob Iger. Genies is built on the belief that every website, app, game, brand, and human will have an AI persona. About the Role: We are seeking a highly motivated and passionate Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our core AI team in San Francisco, CA. This is a high-impact role where you will take end-to-end ownership of the research and development behind our core AI avatar chat systems. You will drive the technical roadmap that defines the intelligence, personality, and interactivity of millions of AI avatars. By tackling fundamental technical challenges, you will bring fun, autonomous, and inspiring AI companions to life. Working alongside a dedicated team of engineers and researchers, you will bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world, consumer-facing product impact. What You'll Be Doing: - Research and implement state-of-the-art solutions using foundation models, prompt engineering, RAG, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent architectures, alongside classical machine learning techniques for a multi-modal AI chat product. - Architect, implement, and deliver scalable AI features and agentic systems

Senior Combat Designer (AI archetype) Montréal, Quebec, Canada As a Senior Combat Designer at Cloud Chamber, you will collaborate with an innovative team of designers, artists, and engineers to create industry-leading AI characters and combat gameplay. You will be responsible for expanding and building on the ideas of player expression and emergent design experiences. Utilizing your deep knowledge of Unreal Engine, you will develop interactive AI characters to support the overall creative vision for our project, ensuring that our ambitious design goals are achieved and ultimately bring the richly imagined world of BioShock to life. What You'll Do: - Work with the Leads, Design Director, and the design team to pitch and develop interactive AI characters and execute the vision for the game. - Act as the primary owner of AI and combat implementation in cross-disciplinary pods. - Develop working prototypes of AI and combat scenarios. - Communicate progress, workflows, and availability of AI and combat standards to content developers. - Maintain and tune assigned combat AI behavior and parameters through to project completion. - Create detailed and easy-to-follow design documentation. - Collaborate across development sites in Novato and Montreal on a day-to-day basis. - Expand and build on the ideas of player expression and emergent design experiences. - Use your creativity to execute on design goals and solve design challenges that push our games forward. - Participate in brainstorm sessions, refine, and execute on ideas within a schedule. - Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to execute on design implementation and

Agentic AI & Data Scientist Valbonne (KFR51693) posted: Posted 30+ Days Ago

Video Game Specialist (US) - Freelance AI Trainer Project United States of America Are you an experienced PC gamer eager to help shape the future of AI? Large-scale language models are expanding beyond text into interactive, AI-generated environments capable of simulating dynamic virtual worlds. With high-quality human feedback, these systems can improve spatial reasoning, objective tracking, responsiveness, and environmental consistency. That training data begins with you-we need your gaming experience to help refine the next generation of AI-driven world models. We're looking for raters based in the US West region with strong PC gaming experience, particularly familiarity with keyboard and mouse controls and standard WASD movement. This project involves interacting directly with an AI-generated world model to navigate environments, complete defined objectives, and evaluate how effectively the system responds to player inputs and in-game scenarios. On a typical session, you will navigate through virtual environments, complete structured tasks or objectives, assess world coherence and responsiveness, identify navigation or physics inconsistencies, and document reproducible issues in model behavior. You will provide clear, structured feedback on performance gaps, unexpected behaviors, objective clarity, environmental realism, and interaction smoothness. Attention to detail and the ability to articulate gameplay observations precisely are essential. Strong PC gaming experience is required. Familiarity with first-person or third-person navigation using WASD controls is essential. Prior experience in Gaming QA, bug reporting, structured playtesting, or usability testing is a significant plus. Entry-level candidates with strong gaming proficiency and the ability to document observations clearly are encouraged to apply. Ready to

AI Engineer Novato, California, United States As an AI Engineer at Cloud Chamber you will join our talented development team to further push the development of the AI Systems and AI Archetypes for BioShock 4. We have high ambitions for tying AI and storytelling together in our project. It will be your responsibility to support several AI Systems and bring our AI Archetypes to life. In this role, you'll help push the state of the art, and experiment with unproven ideas. We are attempting new and ambitious things with AI in this game. You are a bold and curious engineer who believes in an iterative, experimental approach to game development; moving comfortably between design and engineering, collaborating and communicating ambition and limitations. What You'll Do: - Collaborate with the engineering and design teams to iterate and polish existing AI Systems and Archetypes. - Support the development of architecture and implementation within the systems of your domain. - Collaborate with other engineers to implement and maintain AI behavior trees and associated systems. - Test our AI Systems and Archetypes, reporting on their performance operation and memory budgets. - Test and suggest improvements for combat design-facing authoring and encounter scripting tools for - Maintain technical documentation. What We'll Do Together: You will work closely with our Design, Animation, Audio, VFX, and Art departments to support and finalize the implementations for core AI systems: Combat Management, Perception, Steaming/Memory/Performance, etc. You will also help support the creation of new AI Archetypes and finalize existing

AI Anime Researcher - LLM San Francisco or Tokyo tl;dr: We're building a 3D first-person adventure game where an AI companion is the core of the game. Think MiSide https://store.steampowered.com/app/2527500/MiSide/ with LLMs, but truly integrated with gameplay, not just a RP chatbot. ABOUT US Here at Spellbrush, we're passionate about making a good anime game. We also happen to be the world's leading generative AI studio-we're the team behind niji・journey https://nijijourney.com/. Our mission is simple: use AI to bring characters to life and push the boundaries of narrative-driven games. What We're Building We've developed an in-house LLM storytelling system that blends AI, story, and gameplay-going far beyond shallow “chat-only” experiences. The result is an AI companion who cooperates with you in puzzles, remembers across worlds, and changes how each chapter unfolds. [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/89c1442c-bd9c-46be-a910-20b49b5d9ffc/bc53bc2c-874c-41d1-9cb6-e53b0e40720e/IMG_3723.png] [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/89c1442c-bd9c-46be-a910-20b49b5d9ffc/4eb88211-27a0-422d-8294-6660e04ba96c/IMG_3724.png] In-game screenshots (development build) ABOUT THE ROLE You will join a small but extremely talented team to define a new kind of video game experience. You'll work alongside top otaku minds in the industry, including the creator of Warudo https://warudo.app/ and Cytoid https://cytoid.io/, a Google Deepmind veteran behind Project Astra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcDBFAm9PPI, and top-tier AI researchers. As an early member of this team, you will have significant artistic and research freedom to shape what could become the next-generation LLM-driven storytelling experience. WHY YOU'LL LOVE WORKING WITH US Impact and Ownership: As an early team member, you'll have the opportunity to

Senior/Staff AI Algorithms Engineer Redwood City About Dexterity At Dexterity, we believe robots can positively transform the world. Our breakthrough technology frees people to do the creative, inspiring, problem-solving jobs that humans do best by enabling robots to handle repetitive and physically difficult work. We're starting with warehouse automation, where the need for smarter, more resilient supply chains impacts millions of lives and businesses worldwide. Dexterity's full-stack robotics systems pick, move, pack, and collaborate with human-like skill, awareness, and learning capabilities. Our systems are software-driven and hardware-agnostic and have already picked 100+ million goods in production. And did we mention we're customer-obsessed? Every decision, large and small, is driven by one question - how can we empower our customers with robots to do more than they thought was possible? Dexterity is one of the fastest-growing companies in robotics, backed by world-class investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Obvious Ventures. We're a diverse and multidisciplinary team with a culture built on passion, trust, and dedication. Come join Dexterity and help make intelligent robots a reality! About the Role We're looking for an Senior/Staff AI Algorithms Engineer with deep foundations in machine learning, reinforcement learning, and optimization-and a strong drive to apply those skills to novel, high-impact problems in robotics. You will leverage techniques from machine learning, reinforcement learning, search, and optimization to solve hard sequential decision problems that require reasoning about the physical world and its dynamics. You will also stay abreast of the latest progress in reinforcement

AI Anime Researcher Tokyo | San Francisco

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Senior Agentic AI Engineer Yerevan posted: Posted 30+ Days Ago

3D Character Artist (Mid-Senior) Remote - US, Los Angeles, California, United States 3D Character Artist (Mid-Senior) thatgamecompany is looking for a Mid-Senior 3D Character Artist to join our team! Responsibilities: - Create 3D characters and cosmetics in a visual style aligned with the world of Sky - Skinning character and cosmetic assets - Collaborate with project leads, concept artists, designers, and engineers - Brainstorm ideas and create rapid 3D prototypes during the concept and design phase - Support the rest of the 3D team to create character assets - Review and fix bugs of all complexities - Contribute to documentation and resource libraries for the art department - Promote, contribute to, and participate in a culture of inclusion and diversity Must Haves: - Online portfolio demonstrating character art skills - 3+ years of experience as a 3D Character Artist at a game studio - Proficient modeling skills in Maya or equivalent - Self-motivated, humble, and a team player - Open-minded and able to implement feedback from peers and art directors in a timely manner - Passion for creating memorable characters for games - Understanding of Industry Standard Software such as Photoshop, ZBrush, and Texture Creation/Material Editing (Substance Painter/Unity) - Familiarity with Maya rigging/skinning Nice to Haves: - A passionate Gamer - A Sky Player - Human Anatomy & Animal Anatomy knowledge - Understanding of clothing construction and real-world materials - Strive to create a gaming experience that brings a positive impact to the gaming world - Experience creating a game

Machine Learning Engineer -4 – Agentic AI & Personalization San Jose posted: Posted 22 Days Ago

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Artiste de Personnage Avancé.é / Advanced Character Artist Montreal, Quebec, Canada As an Advanced Character Artist you will work with all character related teams members in ensuring the presentation of characters supports emotional and narrative context to meet the creative visio...

Senior Concept Artist (Characters) Novato, California, United States As a Senior Character Concept Artist at Cloud Chamber, you will join our talented development team to help ideate the stunning, stylized characters that will inhabit the world of BioShock. Collaborating with a passionate group of game developers you will be responsible for creating high-fidelity art that conceptualizes the look and feel of our game world, and pushes the boundaries of the Visual Art Direction for the game. To ensure a cohesive look across the project you will partner with the Character Art and Tech Art teams as well as other concept artists, and explore the realization of gameplay paces with the Design team, ultimately bringing the richly imagined world of BioShock to life. What You'll Do: - Create detailed, stylized Character Art concepts. - Deliver high-fidelity concept art, with sufficient detail and clarity, that will serve as the reference for the Character Art team to execute upon, without ambiguity. - Quickly iterate detailed line art character designs. - Create paintovers for 3D visualization to help push the limits of the designs. - Storyboard as needed to clarify concepts and pitches. - Assist in the creation of marketing art and in-game 2D assets when needed. - Follow Art Direction and provide solutions to drive excellence and elevate our standards. - Brainstorm ideas for characters with Design and Art teams. - Sketch explorative thumbnails in 2D and 3D. - Proactively identify complex visual or pipeline bottlenecks before they impact production. - Continuously explore

Entertainment - Character Performer, Walt Disney World Are you looking to create happiness for Guests of all ages? Our Character Performers play an integral role in creating happiness in unique ways as part of our world-class Entertainment offerings! Character Performers bring to life the world-famous Disney Characters. In this role, you will be performing before thousands of Guests each day. With a variety of shows, greetings, and parades throughout the Walt Disney World Resort, there are countless ways to share your talents! You will report to the Guest Experience Manager, Entertainment.

DCP Extensions: Character Performer Fall 2026 About our Program: Magic is Within You Not Ready to Say Goodbye? Apply now to continue experiencing, studying and creating Disney magic as a world-famous Disney character! This posting is for those who attended an audition specifically for a Program extension and were identified by Talent Casting to transfer into a Character Performer role at the Walt Disney World® Resort in Orlando, FL. What You Will Do Participants will join a high-energy team who is passionate about energizing and entertaining our Guests while bringing our world-famous Disney characters and stories to life. Performers portray specific costumed characters in a variety of indoor and outdoor locations, including theme park and resort greeting and dining locations. This involves wearing potentially large body costumes, heads and feet, some with limited vision and range of motion, and exposure to hot and humid weather. They will communicate non-verbally to Guests, and sign autographs and pose for photographs. Performers appear before thousands of guests every single day in our live entertainment offerings at our Parks and Resorts, making memories that will last a lifetime! Some performers may be selected to also perform in our shows and parades and/or as Character Look-Alikes; however, all Character Performers will perform as our sculpted characters. Now is Your Time to Apply! A resume and cover letter are not required to be considered for this application. When prompted, you may choose to "use your profile" in place of a resume. Note: Late applicants will only

Character Manager Every day at Disney Cruise Line we take pride in bringing the magic of Disney to life. We find joy in creating cherished memories and form genuine connections with our guests. We hold each other to the highest degree and always act responsibly while ensuring the safety of fellow crew and guests. United by our Disney values, we work toward excellence in all we do. As a part of our team, you can live and work in a diverse and inclusive environment amidst a professional and supportive community. If you are ready to create unforgettable experiences and grow as a person and as a professional, apply today. As Character Manager, you will manage the entire daily onboard operation of the World Famous Disney Characters including appearances, events, and programs. You will lead a team of performers in compliance with the Character Programs and Development standards to ensure the Character Brand, integrity and use. You will report to the Assistant Cruise Director Level: Officer