Principal Software Engineer

Job Description

Your Platform

Activision Central Technology's CTX group is a team of artists, scientists, and engineers who collaborate with Activision studios to develop pioneering workflows and techniques for game content creation. We combine expertise from the game industry and the film industry to advance real-time visuals to levels which were previously exclusive to motion pictures.

Your Mission

You will be part of a Central Technology effort to provide industry best game assets to our upcoming titles.

Your Mission is to work with multiple teams and new technology to build best-in-class character and prop assets and streamline the delivery of these photoreal assets to our games.
• Work with artists, engineers, supervisors, and producers to determine workflows, tool requirements, and automation needs.
• Maintain a solid understanding of the production pipelines at our studios.
• Proactively come up with ideas for new workflows, plugins, etc.
• Assist in designing, developing, maintaining, and supporting asset creation pipelines and tools which integrate with different specific studio pipelines.
• Jump into both long-term R&D efforts as well as short-term production support as needed.

Player Profile
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in developing pipeline tools and workflows in a CG production environment.
• Understanding of the state-of-the-art in game engines.
• The ability to track down bottlenecks and accuracy/quality issues, wherever they may be in a pipeline.
• Expert knowledge of Python, C++, and object-oriented programming practices.
• Solid software engineering skills, including the ability to write robust, maintainable, well-architected, well-documented code.
• Strong working knowledge of PyQT/PySide, Mel, Maya.
• Expert knowledge of pipelines, asset management infrastructure, and farm queuing systems.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, and ability to work effectively with multiple teams.
• Self-motivated and able to quickly learn new areas of development.
• Strong ability to innovate.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rneno5-18-117-9-186-42 in your application.