Senior Software Developer (Houdini)

CoreWeave's Conductor team is searching for a unique developer to join the client applications team to take ownership of our Houdini submission integration. A deep working knowledge and passion for Houdini as an artist or technical director is required.  The ideal candidate will have experience writing artist tools for other DCCs such as Maya, Cinema4D, Nuke, Clarisse, 3dsMax, Katana, and Adobe products, as you may be asked to build on or take ownership of some of these integrations.

This role will coordinate with other team members to contribute design ideas and ensure a coherent experience across all customer-facing applications.  The Houdini Developer will respond directly to customers about production workflow issues when our first line of support elevates tickets. You’ll also contribute to documentation and tutorials for the tools you own.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and support our Houdini submission tools and possibly others.
• Design new features based on internal discussions, customer feedback, and your own knowledge of industry trends.
• Coordinate with our cloud backend team.
• Ensure plugins and 3rd party renderers are supported where there’s demand.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the customer experience by removing redundant features.
• Write readable code with tests and strive to improve the quality of your own and legacy code through refactoring.
• Build and release tools compatible with multiple host versions and platforms.
• Troubleshoot production scenes and determine the best action to mitigate repeat issues.
• Keep customer-facing and internal documentation up to date.

Qualifications:

• Excellent Python programming, testing, and debugging skills.
• At least 3 years of production experience in a VFX or animation environment.
• Experience with common CG applications and specialization with Houdini.
• Excellent technical writing skills.
• Good understanding of computer graphics principles (color, geometry, simulation, lighting, and CG pipelines.)

Nice-to-have’s:

• Experience with web technologies, (HTTP, NodeJS, React.)
• Experience with cloud computing (GCP, AWS.)
• Any of C++, Powershell, Bash.
• An artistic eye.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $85,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $140,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.