Computer Graphics Pipeline - Software Engineer

Job Description

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.

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.
Our World

Great Games Start with Great People! This is an exciting time to join us!

Activision has been changing the way people play for the past 40 years-as the leading developer and publisher of video games, our teams have created some of the world's biggest, most ground-breaking, and beloved entertainment franchises in the industry. Ask anyone who works at Activision what their favorite thing about it is, and they'll tell you it's the people. We have world class brands, infrastructure, and resources, but our success comes from people producing greatness together. We are nothing without our employee's brilliance.

Activision is more than just the leading developer and publisher of video games; we are the creators of some of the world's biggest, most ground-breaking titles in the industry. Our current portfolio includes Call of Duty®, Skylanders®, and Crash Bandicoot™.

Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI), headquartered in Santa Monica, California with locations across the globe, is one of the largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies in the world. Sitting at the intersection of media, technology, and entertainment, our employees are some of the best and brightest across engineering, entertainment, media, and technology. A member of the S&P 500 Activision Blizzard is proud to be included as one of FORTUNE's ''100 Best Companies To Work For®,'' ''World's Best Employers,'' as well as ''Most Admired Companies.'' In 2019 we were honored to receive a perfect score on our entry to the Corporate Equality Index as a Best Workplace for LGBTQ professionals and once again made Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies in Gaming.

The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp4749-3-139-72-200-42 in your application.