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SAN Francisco Software Developer
LucasFilm
San Francisco, CA, United States
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SAN FRANCISCO Software Developer (Shotgun Integration)
• Industrial Light & Magic's (ILM) Research & Development and Core Pipeline groups develop the ground-breaking technology that our artists use to create dazzling visuals. ILM’s innovations have won 29 Scientific and Technical Academy Awards®. Today, we are 70+ visually-minded software engineers, working side-by-side with over a thousand digital artists in a fast-paced, intensely collaborative, creatively-driven film production environment, across studios in San Francisco, Singapore, Vancouver, and London.
With 40 years of experience, we’re the one of the best in the business, but our restless spirit leaves us uncontent with the status quo with an ambition to improve everything we do. We seek out the most challenging visual effects work, while still maintaining a sensible grounding. Our next phase:
• Modernize our core infrastructure, integrating the latest technologies
• Increase the throughput of our global compute and storage processes
• Streamline our guru artist tools so they’re easier to learn and easier to use
• Develop ever more powerful techniques that push the bounds of visual complexity and cinematic fidelity, and continue to create images no one has seen before
• Push the state of the art in technology, but always in service of the latest creative challenge
• Develop and support internal tools for software configuration and deployment, software build, continuous integration, versioning, and release automation
Requirements:
• We need people who have:
• Experience compiling, installing, versioning, and distributing complex systems
• A knack for troubleshooting, simplifying, and automating complex processes
• A love of working closely with creative, visual people, some in faraway places
• You should have a keen sense for how creative people use technology to work together under pressure
• Bachelor’s degree in computing science, or equivalent professional experience
• Good demonstrable experience in professional software development
• VFX, feature animation, or episodic production experience is a bonus, but not essential
• An intuitive understanding of the demands of a fast-paced, creatively-driven visual effects production environment
• Collaboration: a readiness to trust others, and an eagerness to learn, and play nice. Communication: an ability to express yourself concisely, a willingness to speak up, and a conviction to keep everyone informed of progress and issues
• An insightful and analytical thinker, and a creative problem solver
• Strong knowledge of Python and standard Python packaging and installation tool-chain. Extensive experience with Linux, C++, GNU compilers, make/cmake, static/dynamic linking, and Jenkins pipelines
• Experience with a large, complex, mature, and dynamic code base
• Experience managing plugins for applications
• Deep understanding of revision control systems, primarily Perforce and Git
• Experience creating distributed, scalable systems that are fault tolerant and reliable. Understanding of storage clusters and network protocols
• Experience developing on Windows is a bonus