Lead Production Software Engineer, Tools & Pipelines

The Walt Disney Company; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 143,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company’s Walt Disney Animation Studios in Vancouver, BC, is seeking a senior software engineer for Production Technology. You will join a cross-disciplinary team designing and implementing workflows, core libraries, and artist-facing tools to support feature productions.

You should have strong C++ and Python experience, USD and Qt expertise, and a track record of leading API design and architectural initiatives across complex toolchains.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with C++ (including x11/x14) or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience with Python or equivalent experience.
• Strong experience with USD (Universal Scene Description).
• Strong experience with Qt (for desktop development) or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years experience designing and developing interactive tools, with 3+ years in senior technical roles designing core infrastructure.
• Partner with Technology leadership to establish architectural vision for key new frameworks including data models, GUI toolkits, and underlying core libraries and evaluation engines.
• Extensive experience designing APIs from scratch as well as designing APIs that extend existing frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate with team members across different disciplines including directly interfacing with stakeholders to understand requirements.
• Experience guiding cross disciplinary teams of engineers over open ended technical problem domains.
• Demonstrated ability to lead development from architectural design to implementation, and through adoption, helping build adoptions plans and strategies with incremental integration milestones through a collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Exemplary communication, teamwork and problem solving skills, balancing the timeliness of solutions with their sustainability. Able to collaborate with team and leadership to prioritize competing demands based on business value.
• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Skills

C++

Python

USD

Qt

API design

Architecture vision

Cross-disciplinary teamwork

BS degree in CS/CE/EE

Education

BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field

MS in Computer Science

Tools

Qt

USD

Job description

The Walt Disney Company’s Walt Disney Animation Studios in Vancouver, BC, is seeking a senior software engineer for Production Technology. You will join a cross-disciplinary team designing and implementing workflows, core libraries, and artist-facing tools to support feature productions.

You should have strong C++ and Python experience, USD and Qt expertise, and a track record of leading API design and architectural initiatives across complex toolchains.