Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
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10-04-2025
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Job Description
Skydance offers a dynamic inclusive and everevolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.
While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hardworking Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the worlds most collaborative art form can achieve and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio thats doing something different.
For information on Skydances privacy practices see theSkydance U.S. PersonnelPrivacy Notice located athttps://skydance/privacypersonnel/.
As a Senior Software engineer you will partner with artists from modeling rigging animation character effects (CFX) crowds also engineers and other stakeholders to design and implement innovative workflows and cuttingedge solutions enhancing our inhouse suite of character tools.
Responsibilities
- Architects and implements a robust Python toolset to streamline the character assembly pipeline ensuring modularity scalability and maintainability.
- Collaborates with artists and technical teams to gather requirements and design new workflows and tools that enhance charactercreation processes.
- Evaluates code quality and performance while contributing to the overall architectural design of the Python codebase within the Characters team.
- Develops scalable solutions that integrate into various Digital Content Creation (DCC) applications such as Autodesk Maya and SideFX Houdini.
- Fosters a collaborative team environment supporting technical guidelines and methodologies such as Agile and Scrum.
- Mentors team members by providing technical guidance and best practices.
- Demonstrates technical leadership through innovation and problemsolving.
- Builds strong relationships with peers supervisors stakeholders and other teams across the studio.
- Keeps up on current artistic methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment.
- Works together with the team providing them with support guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their artistic and professional growth. (mandatory)
- Follows the Supervisors and Leads guidance.
Requirements
- 5 years in VFX or animation industries.
- 3 years in the animation industry.
- Experience designing and developing complex userfacing software preferably in a studio environment.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related fieldor equivalent industry experience.
- Proficiency in Python with the ability to write clear testable and maintainable code.
- Experience developing userfacing interfaces with Qt (PyQt/PySide) designing intuitive responsive and productionready tools for artists and technical users.
- Strong understanding of software architecture and design patterns to create scalable maintainable and efficient tools.
- Experience with performance measurement profiling and analysis tools.
- Strong communication teamwork and problemsolving skills with the ability to balance speed and sustainability in solutions.
- Ability to prioritize competing demands based on business value.
- Passion for collaborating with inhouse artists and engineers to prototype develop and support solutions to our filmmaking challenges.
- Knowledge of character workflows particularly in rigging animation and CFX.
- Strong understanding of realtime animation graphics techniques and geometry processing algorithms.
- Strong mathematical fundamentals including linear algebra statistics and numerical methods.
- Proficiency in C/C ideally C11/14.
- High English level.
- Spanish desirable.
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Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality eventlevel entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film television interactive and animation divisions.
Skydance is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building and fostering a diverse equitable and inclusive workforce. We welcome and consider applicants for employment regardless of race color religion age sex national origin citizenship sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status pregnancy status military/veteran status disability or any other protected category. Diversity in the workplace is not just a commitment it is who we are and a reflection of what makes our world special.
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