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VANCOUVER R&D Engineer III
LucasFilm
Vancouver, , Canada
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This position is a member of the team that develops and supports ILM’s artist-facing pipeline tools. These systems help artists collaborate in creating extraordinarily complex, state of the art visual effects, in a fast-paced production environment. The duties are a mix of designing and building new systems, maintaining current systems, and supporting artists in production, with a focus on pipeline workflow, scene description, asset management, and artist-centric user interfaces.
• Designs and develops artist-centric user interfaces, workflow tools, and standards of data representation that enable collaboration between all artist disciplines.
• Responsible for extending, maintaining, and supporting software systems in active production.
• Works in collaboration with disparate artist user groups and engineering teams spread across all ILM studios, in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, and Singapore.
• Serves as a knowledge resource for software and/or systems as they are used in production at ILM, from show bidding through end user support. Maintains current knowledge of commercial software packages.
• Mentors, advises and assists junior engineers and occasionally leads projects and project teams.
• Contributes to discussions surrounding future applications and/or systems.
• Special projects as necessary
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or scientific discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 3+ years experience in field of computer graphics. In-depth knowledge and demonstrated experience with computer graphics pipeline; understanding of computer-graphics workflows, i.e., animation, modeling, dynamic simulation, compositing, and rendering.
• Demonstrated UI and user-experience design skills (preferably Qt, PyQt, web)
• Experience with commercial 2D and 3D software packages preferred (Maya, Houdini, Nuke, Mari, Katana); development experience with commercial SDK’s a plus.
• Expert Python skills
• Experience with C++ development under Linux strongly preferred.
• 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 prioritize a variety of tasks efficiently.