Senior Development S/W Engineer

Description

Walt Disney Animation Studios combines the very best in artistry and storytelling with cutting-edge technology to bring wonderful new characters to the big screen for audiences around the world. Constantly challenged to create innovative new technologies for animated features, theme park productions and special projects for the Walt Disney Company, Disney Animation is home to some of the most talented artists working in the film industry today.

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We have an immediate opening for a specialist in performance tuning for computer graphics applications to join the team at our Burbank, CA studio as a Senior Development Software Engineer.

Responsibilities

* Re-engineer/re-factor applications and libraries to leverage parallelism of emerging massive multicores
* Be an evangelist for multicore computing and performance optimization throughout the organization
* Identify, evaluate, and propose technical strategy for creating a high performance infrastructure for applications
* Collaborate with developers and artists on the design and planning of projects
* Participate in an iterative development cycle with frequent releases
* Collaborate with QA to create test plans, unit and integration tests
* Conduct benchmarks and perform Performance, Scalability and Reliability exercises of applications and libraries on new emerging multicore CPU/GPUs