Software Engineer - Procedural Geometry & Simulation jobs at Netflix in Canada, Vancouver

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.

Job is open for no less than 7 days and will be removed when the position is filled.

Job Summary:

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What You’ll Do:

• Work on all aspects of the renderer, including scene representation, render and sampling engine, raytracer, shading system: everything required for generating highly realistic images for our films.

• Create and maintain tools that are directly used in our lighting, shading, and compositing workflows.

• Closely collaborate with technically minded artists to design, implement and rapidly deploy into production.

• Be part of a small, dynamic and self-motivated team of individuals with varied backgrounds.

• Take on responsibility, get stuff done, and make our artists happy!

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

What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years’ experience developing 3D rendering software using C++ in high performance computing environments.

• Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• Have a background in film, animation, television, visualization, games, or come fresh out of academia with a strong focus on computer graphics.

• Strong mathematical skills and familiarity with numerical methods, probability and statistics used for rendering such as Monte Carlo integration and importance sampling

• A talent and passion for optimisation and a working knowledge of efficient spatial data structures.

• A thorough understanding of photorealistic rendering, light transport and global illumination techniques.

• A passion for algorithms, optimization, and data structures.

• Working knowledge of shading technologies such as RSL, OSL, GLSL

• An ability to work in a challenging environment, take direction and possess good communication skills.

• Willingness to work in a highly dynamic production environment and collaborate with artistic staff.

• Real-time rendering experience.

• Exposure to raytracing and shading technologies such as Embree and OIIO/OpenPGL/RSL/OSL/GLSL.

• Experience with developing shading or raytracing algorithms on massively parallel architectures such as multi-threaded CPUs and GPUs.

• Practice in writing high performance code, vectorized code, with a good understanding of parallel programming, compilers and optimization.

• Familiarity with DCC applications such as Houdini and Maya, including their APIs.

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

Job Summary:

You may have a background in film, animation, television, visualization or games fields. An interest in mathematics and/or physics would be beneficial.

What You’ll Do:

• Experience working with our procedural tools for fur/hair/feathers, cloth, vegetation and stylized effects. Work on our new simulation toolset for Character FX artists to bring dynamic motion to these procedural effects.

• Experience a variety of challenges with every show/project to cater to the look and style of the film.

• Work alongside some of the best artists and developers in the world.

• Integrate those tools and techniques into both established and new artist workflows.

• Collaborate directly with the artists who will be utilizing the tools you develop.

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

What You’ll Need:

• A tertiary qualification in Computer Science or Engineering or Math/Geometry.

• 5 or more years of experience in a VFX/animation/game field, specifically working with procedural geometry and/or physical simulation.

• Software development experience using C++.

• Working knowledge of relevant applications such as Houdini and Maya, including their APIs.

• Ability to develop tools and UIs for creative users.

• Experience with UNIX / LINUX.

• Willingness to work in a fast-paced production environment.

• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently for some tasks.

• Experience writing high-performance code: profiling tools, optimization, multi-threading and SIMD.

• Mathematical skills and familiarity with algorithms for numerical simulation of cloth and hair.

• Some experience with GPU programming (e.g. CUDA).

• Working knowledge of other relevant APIs or extension languages, such as OpenGL,OpenVDB, CUDA, Boost, TBB, USD, or Eigen.

• An appreciation of design aesthetics.

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

Job Responsibilities Include (not limited to):

• Assists Workplace Manager in overseeing facility operations across all Netflix Vancouver operations and studios. Engages in managing all facilities vendors and partners per the assigned site(s).

• Captures daily work requests and maintains corrective/preventative maintenance work records for internal and third party vendors, supporting various locations.

• Must be able to compose, send, and manage many emails daily, ensuring timely and accurate communication with vendors, partners, and team members.

• Provides prompt response to requests and issues from facility occupants and manages work order maintenance tickets.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

• Experience in fast-paced operational setup where SLA adherence is critical

• Excellent project management skills and the ability to keep multiple priorities moving at the same time

• Conducts and operates regular facilities inspections and audits.

• Supports leading network system(s) i.e. HVAC automation, FLS and additional systems to be integrated.

• Provides support resolution of critical issues with infrastructure and manage day to day operations calls during disruptions; assess root causes and methods for remediation.

• Participates in new design construction walks, new system training, documentation and other collaborations between Workplace Operations and Studio Design and Construction.

• Implements site specific programs, procedures and systems to ensure regulatory compliance, protecting employees, and the environment.

• Collaborates with the Environmental Health and Safety team to ensure compliance with health and safety standards and industry codes

• Leads self-started projects and builds reports.

• Generates Building/Energy Management System reports detailing real time and historical trends such as temperature, humidity and status to identify anomalies.

• Isolates problem trends and ensures troubleshooting efforts to the identify root cause

• On-call for the support and coordination of any emergency repair or situation. Resolve emergencies as they arise in the most urgent manner

• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested

Qualifications:

• 4+ years in a maintenance/facilities role in a corporate environment

• Strong understanding of electrical, mechanical and technical skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills

• Adept at managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast paced, fluid environment

• Possess competent knowledge of use and care of appropriate tools/equipment

• Proficient in reading diagrams/instructions and assemble furniture/workstations to spec

• Experience managing workload in a ticketing/project tracking system

• Computer literate

• Experience maintaining theater equipment is a plus

• Talent and/or certification in a trade such as carpentry, low voltage wiring, etc. is a plus

• HVAC technician experience/certification is a plus