Senior Software Developer - Unreal / Virtual Production

Job Description

Technicolor Creative Studios is a creative technology company driven by one purpose: The realization of ambitious and extraordinary ideas. We inspire creative companies across the world to produce their most iconic work. Our award-winning teams of artists and technologists partner with the creative community across film, television, animation, gaming, brand experience and advertising to bring the universal art of storytelling to audiences everywhere. No idea is too ambitious for us to create to an incredibly high standard. Technicolor Creative Studios provides world class production expertise in Film, Episodic, Gaming, Advertising and Experiential Marketing. Our global network of studios includes MPC Film, Episodic & Advertising, Mikros Animation and The Mill.

MPC VFX is part of Technicolor's premiere portfolio of VFX brands and services providing offerings tailored to the specific creative and storytelling needs of each project. Within this collective, MPC has built a reputation for industrial-scale production of images, and the software development to enable this.

MPC has been at the forefront of Realtime and Virtual Production for years, with those efforts participating in Oscar nomination and wins, and we're renewing our efforts to remain at the bleeding edge of those offerings for our clients.

Does this look like you? Inventive, passionate about Realtime, with a sense for practical problem solving, and and an understanding of Frame Budget constraints. If it does, we want to hear from you!

Primary Responsibilities
• Hands on implementation of core parts of the technology stack between the backend and asset/shot authoring (with feedback or overlap on the neighbouring stack elements as necessary /comfortable)
• Work with a Team Lead and the Heads of Software to inform, design and/or implement solutions
• Work with a Team Lead and internal clients to track, design and/or implement solutions for business unit specific deployments of the global strategy
• Guide and/or mentor more junior members of the team
• Contribute to coordination, tracking, and communication of progress, issues and forecasts within the team and across multiple sites
• Contribute documentation and demonstration internally to the team and to internal clients
• Make significant contributions to the vision and workflow that will shape the most modern services and ambitious tool kit in the industry

Qualifications

Essential skills are those you have matured professionally, or have been practising personally for a length of time and can demonstrate achievements in (e.g. personal repository, demos etc.)
• Experience in a technical role in a media/content centric industry (VFX / AA or AAA Games etc.)
• Most recently in a senior role or similar experience
• Degree in a STEM field, or Technical Animation, or demonstrable equivalent knowledge
• Strong proficiency and dexterity developing in C++ and intermediate knowledge of other languages
• Comfortable working and developing in both Linux and Windows environment
• Expert level user and development experience on a mainstream Game Engine (Unreal, Unity, etc.)
• Familiar with at least one major DCC API (Maya, Houdini etc.)
• Familiar with structured development practices (Version Control, issue management, progress tracking)
• Intimate understanding and vision around one or more of Asset Management Systems, Production Management System, USD, and willing to catch up to the rest
• Strong communication skills towards both a technical/developer audience and non-developer competent users
• Understanding and appreciation for UX, and the ability to demonstrate and iterate ideas through prototypes that might include a GUI
• Keen and able to work in a production centric, responsive, and fast paced environment
• Comfortable with git and experience with an asset friendly source and version control system, Perforce preferred.
• Understanding of where USD fits into asset pipelines, knowledge of the platform or willingness quickly learn it on the job if you have no demonstrable experience.

Desirable Skills

Desirable skills are advantageous, but not strictly necessary.
We don't expect candidates to tick ALL the boxes, but if you have any of the following in any combination they will be highly regarded. If you don't, a keen interest in learning more on the job about some combination will be important.
• Experience in a virtual production development role with experience of related workflows and technology (VCam and Camera intrinsic, LED walls, shot creation and tracking, timecode, video signals etc.)
• Expert level user knowledge or implementation experience on a popular DCC application (Maya, Houdini etc.)
• Familiarity with Shotgun
• Extensive applied knowledge of USD
• An affinity for DevOps
• Experience with, and interest in, data design and parametrization
• Python Programming
• Strong working and development knowledge of Unreals Blueprinting system
• Maya, Operation and SDK
• Houdini, Operation and HDK

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g62wkq-18-189-145-20-42 in your application.