Creative Technology Studio - Programmer

Description

The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences. Bring your individual talents here and discover for yourself why a career with Disney is the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

“It takes people to make the dream a reality.” Walt was on to something when he said that, and it continues to ring true today. No matter the stage in your career, being a part of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts means being a part of a team where you help bring innovation to life through unsurpassed products, services and most importantly remarkable experiences. As a Cast Member you are the steward and connection to our legacy and the backbone of our thriving innovations. Join our team and watch your dreams come true.

The Creative Technology team of Walt Disney Imagineering is looking for a programmer to help with day to day technical responsibilities of the team. The Creative Technology Studio is collection of technologists and artists working within Imagineering to create and deploy technology tools to help increase Imagineers capabilities and efficiencies.

Responsibilities:

Aiding in creation of technology heavy proof-of-concepts.

Digital pipeline tools development for 3d media generation for use in vfx, architecture, games, etc.

Aiding in troubleshooting previously built proof-of-concepts.

Communicating technical concepts to nontechnical teams.

Basic Qualifications:

Candidate should be a proficient programmer in both high level languages such as

Python and lower level languages such as C/C++

Computer graphics programming experience (OpenGL/DirectX)

Strong 3D math skills

Be a strong communicator (written and spoken)

Working knowledge of commercial software applications including:

Game engines (Panda3D, Unreal, Unity, etc.)
3D content-creation software (Autodesk Maya, MotionBuilder, Sketchup, etc.)
2D content-creation software (Adobe Creative Suite, Nuke, etc.)

Ability to learn APIs and new SDKs quickly

Understanding of digital art pipeline for games and/or visual effects.

Basic working knowledge of computer hardware and networking.

Preferred Qualifications:

Virtual Reality experience

Autodesk Maya scripting (MEL/Python) and API (C++/Python) development experience

Shader programming experience (GLSL/HLSL/Cg)

Web programming (HTML5/CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, Django)

Game Engine other than Unity experience

Computer Vision experience

Robotics programming

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