Software Engineer (Lighting) at PIXAR

Location: Emeryville, CA

About Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios is an Academy Award®-winning computer animation studio with the technical, creative and production capabilities to develop computer-animated feature and short films with memorable characters and heartwarming stories that appeal to audiences of all ages.
Pixar has created eight of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and most recently Ratatouille. The studio has won 20 Academy Awards® and its eight films have grossed more than $3.4 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The Northern California studio's next film release is WALL-E (June 27, 2008).

Summary of Position
This is a software engineering position in the Production Engineering Department to help support the existing deployments of Pixar's in-house movie production software. The primary responsibility of this position is to maintain and fix bugs in our proprietary system. This is a front line position that requires collaboration with our engineering staff, project managers, and production users to maintain mission critical software.

Responsibilities

• Primarily responsible for the maintenance and support of software and/or systems under the guidance of a departmental project lead.
• Works directly with production staff to solve technical challenges and debug high priority issues.
• Detailed problem analysis and resolution of issues.
• Triage incoming issues and provide rapid response/resolution.
  

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills with expertise in C and C++.
• B.S. degree in computer science, advanced degree preferred.
• 5-7 years of experience in the computer graphics field.
• Strong 3D math and computer graphics experience.
• Linux or UNIX Operating System experience.
• 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 handle a variety of tasks in an efficient manner.
• Excellent tracking and follow through ability.
• Desire to provide excellent customer-service to production staff.

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