Software Engineer II

Job Description

DreamWorks Animation is looking for a software engineer to join the R&D Rigging and Animation development team. This team is responsible for Premo - the company's proprietary character animation tool. In addition, they are responsible for the development of Luna - the company’s new proprietary character rigging tool.

Responsibilities include:

• Work with technical leadership to design, build, and support new and existing capabilities and techniques related to character animation and rigging in a large-scale application
• Closely interact with animators and character riggers to help improve their workflows
• Develop clean, maintainable, and documented solutions
• Develop thorough unit tests to validate solutions
• Collaborate with Pipeline and Microservice teams to ensure data flows in and out of the application correctly and efficiently

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Two years’ experience in software development
• Strong C/C++ software development
• Strong understanding of data structures and computer graphics
• Development experience and ability to work closely with end users and engineers
• Attention to detail and strong communication skills
• Experience in problem solving and balancing quick turnaround with long-term quality.

Desired Characteristics

• Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field
• Professional experience in a VFX or animation studio
• Experience in large-scale application development
• User interaction design with a working knowledge of standard UI toolkits
• Experience with writing and debugging multi-threaded code
• Experience with third party rigging and animation tools (such as Maya)
• Overall understanding of the rigging and animation process

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmkbkm-216-73-216-177-42 in your application.