Software Engineer, Tools USD (Core)

Disney; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Engineer on the Universal Scene Description (USD) team, where you will push the boundaries of filmmaking technology. This role offers the chance to work on an open-source framework that is pivotal to the filmmaking pipeline, collaborating with both artists and engineers. You'll tackle challenging problems in a dynamic production environment, ensuring that the software architecture remains scalable and efficient. If you are passionate about creating innovative tools that enhance artistic expression, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of C++ and data structures.
• Creative problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Universal Scene Description (USD) for asset interchange.
• Collaborate with artists to provide innovative technical solutions.

Skills

C++

Data Structures

Algorithms

Problem Solving

Software Architecture

Job description

Software Engineer, Tools USD (Core)

Job ID: R-03977

Ubicación: Emeryville, California, Estados Unidos

Business: Pixar Animation Studios

Fecha de publicación: 08/05/2025

Detalles del empleo:

Are you interested in advancing Pixar’s in-house and open-source filmmaking software? Our Software R&D department is looking for a motivated and skilled engineer to help push the boundaries of our Universal Scene Description (USD) project. Our engineering team works with both artists and engineers to build innovative filmmaking tools that enable our film production and continuously extend artistic reach.

As a Software Engineer on the USD team, you will work on USD, our framework for asset interchange and collaborative editing, and a cornerstone of our filmmaking pipeline. This codebase has been open sourced as OpenUSD, and you’ll support and collaborate with a rich community across various industries to extend the project in exciting new directions!

What you’ll do:

1. Contribute to Universal Scene Description (USD), an open-source software framework for asset interchange and collaborative editing that forms the backbone of Pixar’s filmmaking pipeline, and is used widely across various industries.
2. Further integrate USD into Pixar’s custom toolset of 3D content creation applications, and help evolve its growing feature set while improving performance and scalability.
3. Take ownership of challenging problems that arise from evolving the architecture of software that is heavily exercised in an active production environment.
4. Collaborate with artists and other engineers to provide innovative technical solutions that extend our artistic and engineering reach.
5. Join forces with external partners as USD continues to redefine pipelines across industries, bringing new contributors and collaborators to the table.

What you offer:

1. A strong understanding of C++ that you continually expand upon.
2. Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
3. Readiness to navigate a large code base with many active contributors.
4. Creative problem solving skills, with attention to detail, and a desire to discover and address root causes.
5. Pride and passion in building software architecture that minimizes complexity, scales well, and remains malleable to an ever evolving filmmaking pipeline.
6. You hold yourself to a high bar when it comes to engineering methodologies, like writing maintainable code, providing good documentation and embracing automated testing.
7. Love of the whole development cycle: From proposal and planning, to implementation, testing, optimization and deployment.
8. You listen well and communicate clearly and succinctly.

The hiring range for this position in Emeryville is $160,565.00 to $207,790.00 per year. The actual offer will consider internal equity and may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, knowledge, skills, and experience.

Acerca de Pixar Animation Studios:

Pixar Animation Studios, una subsidiaria de The Walt Disney Company, es un estudio de cine galardonado con capacidades técnicas, creativas y de producción de renombre mundial en la animación por computadora. Ha creado películas exitosas como “Toy Story”, “Monsters, Inc.”, “Cars”, “The Incredibles”, “Ratatouille”, “WALL•E”, “Up”, “Toy Story 3”, “Brave”, “Inside Out”, y “Coco”. Sus películas han ganado 35 premios de la Academia y recaudado más de 13,000 millones de dólares mundialmente.

Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:

La compañía Disney, líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios, opera en más de 40 países y crea historias y experiencias para toda la familia en todo el mundo.

Este puesto es en Pixar Inc., parte de Pixar Animation Studios, y es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Se considerarán todas las solicitudes sin discriminación por motivos de raza, religión, género, orientación sexual, discapacidad, entre otros.

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