About the Company:
Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation.
To date, the studio has earned twenty-two Academy Awards, six Golden Globes, and three Grammys, among many other awards, acknowledgments and achievements and has made $5.5 billion worldwide. It is one of the most critically acclaimed film studios of all time. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films which are created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard Renderman image-rendering API used to generate high-quality images.
The ideal candidate:
Responsibilities
- Primarily responsible for the maintenance and support of software and/or systems under the guidance of a departmental project lead.
- Works directly with production staff to solve technical challenges and debug high priority issues.
- Detailed problem analysis and resolution of issues.
- Triage incoming issues and provide rapid response/resolution.
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering skills with expertise in C++, C.
- Scripting skills with expertise in Python preferred.
- B.S. degree in computer science required, advanced degree preferred.
- Strong 3D math and computer graphics experience required, experience with numerical techniques for simulation preferred.
- 5-7 years of experience in the computer graphics field preferred.
- Open GL experience preferred.
- Linux or UNIX Operating System experience.
- Excellence in problem solving and balancing quick turnaround with long-term quality.
- Must be able to work well with a wide range of personality types.
- Must be detail oriented and organized, possess strong communication skills, and be able to handle a variety of tasks in an efficient manner.
- Excellent tracking and follow through ability.
- Desire to provide excellent customer service to production staff.
Job Description and responsibilities:
This is a software engineering position in the Studio Tools Department to develop and support simulation tools for Pixar's in-house movie production. The primary responsibility of this position is to maintain our proprietary simulation software engines and pipelines with bug fixes and feature development for concurrent film productions. This is a front line position that requires collaboration with our engineering staff, project managers, and production users to support mission critical software.
To apply:
Visit our careers page and look for Job Id #10374