Software Engineer - Animation & Rigging

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Job Summary:

Are you a software engineer with experience working with rigging and animation, or a rigger with extensive development experience? Are you interested in joining a cross-functional R&D team which focuses on tools that stretch from Rigging and Layout to Final Animation? You will work as a part of the global development team to advance its animation production tools and processes, dedicated to the areas of animation and rigging.

What You’ll Do:

• Work on high end animated features, collaborating closely with production to solve technical and creative challenges related to character animation.

• Contribute to the design and development of a state of the art rigging framework tightly integrated in a USD pipeline.

• Maintain and improve our existing tech stack, from geometry algorithms to user-facing toolsets.

• Develop high quality code with a focus on readability, stability, performance and documentation.

• Work closely with artists to create user-friendly workflows and intuitive applications.

• Regularly present your work internally to production and tech teams and publicly at conferences.

• Collaborate with grace, humility, inclusion, and open-mindedness.

What You’ll Need:

• 8+ years experience working on character rigging and animation workflows.

• Proficient C++ and Python Developer.

• Demonstrable knowledge of a DCC application and its API (Maya, Houdini, Unreal, proprietary animation software…).

• Basic knowledge of USD.

• Excellent problem solving skills.

• A passion for working hand in hand with artists and production staff.

• Strong communication skills necessary for working with teams on different sites and time zones (PST/AEDT), with both technical and non-technical production partners.

• Excellent verbal, written, and e-social communication skills.

Bonus: 

• Extensive knowledge of USD.

• Experience with rendering, GPU technology.

• Experience with ML/AI.

Depending on skillset and interest, the position can be generalist within the team touching on the entire tech stack, or have a more dedicated focus on back end or user-facing libraries.

This role is based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Hybrid Role (Minimum of 2 days a week in the office).

NAS benefits can include medical/dental/vision plans, mental health support, retirement programs, and family-forming benefits, paid leave of absence programs, and paid time away programs to be used for vacation and sick paid time off. See more detail about our benefits .

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