Pipeline Engineer

Description

Oriental DreamWorks is looking for an experienced software engineer to join the Pipeline development team. Pipeline developers are responsible for the backbone which allows a geographically distributed team to produce animated feature films and provide critical tooling to support a show's artists and department heads.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide support and development of software tools and procedures to extend and enhance the core production pipeline.

• Work with multiple departments, including Modeling, Animation, Lighting, and FX to design and implement custom production workflows.

• Assist artists, technical directors, and department heads with troubleshooting workflow problems in various areas such as fur, clothing, particle effects, animation, and rendering.

• Ensure software development follows studio policies and guidelines.

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent is required

• Strong programming skills. Proficiency in Python, C, and C++

• Experience with GUI toolkits, especially Qt

• Production experience in computer animation, visual effects, or game industry.

• Experience integrating tools into existing or new pipelines.

• Experience with multiple DCC applications such as Maya, Houdini, Nuke, or Katana.

• Ability to establish priorities, work independently or within a group, and work with minimal supervision.

• Demonstrated experience in high quality UI concept design and development

• Exceptional communication skills in dealing with both technical and artistic groups.

• Experience working as part of a geographically distributed development team

• Experience using Javascript MVC frameworks to build end user web applications

• Familiarity with cloud management systems such as OpenShift and OpenStack