Senior Production Technology Engineer

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company; Burbank (CA); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Walt Disney Animation Studios is seeking an experienced engineer to join Production Technology, focusing on software development across core libraries and user interfaces. You will work with artists, production leadership, and technologists to design and implement innovative workflows that support the long-term vision of the studio.

You will build APIs, extend core libraries, and create artist-facing tools using C++, Python, USD, and Qt, collaborating across disciplines to enable efficient shot

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

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing innovative workflows and state of the art solutions for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
• Leading efforts related to architectural decisions and tool development for production pipelines.
• Collaborating with artists, production, and leadership to deliver scalable workflows and GUI tools.

Skills

C++

Python

USD

Qt

Senior leadership

API design

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Architectural vision

Data models

Education

BS in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering / related field

Masters in Computer Science

Tools

x11/x14 C++

Job description

Walt Disney Animation Studios is seeking an experienced engineer to join Production Technology, focusing on software development across core libraries and user interfaces. You will work with artists, production leadership, and technologists to design and implement innovative workflows that support the long-term vision of the studio.

You will build APIs, extend core libraries, and create artist-facing tools using C++, Python, USD, and Qt, collaborating across disciplines to enable efficient shot