Sr Texture Pipeline TD

General Summary
The Sr Texture Pipeline TD collaborates with production and facility leadership to design, develop, deploy, and support the suite of tools used by Texture Artists, as well as the underlying APIs.  

Job Functions 

• Collaborate on the design and development of tools and techniques used by Texture Painters, including custom UIs, Asset Management Integration, and underlying APIs. 
• Lead the design of an updated system for publishing versioned sets of textures, with configurable color spaces and bit depths for different channels, optimized to share unchanging files between versions. 
• Work with other engineers, artists and leadership to ensure consistency and scalability of texture tools and APIs in relation to the rest of the pipeline. 
• Provide support for artists in the texture domain when issues with their toolset are encountered. 
• Collaborate with Look Development TDs and leadership to ensure that our texture pipeline meets their needs. 
• Collaborate with others to develop and maintain up-to-date user and developer facing documentation for relevant tools and APIs. 
• Ensure that texture tools and APIs have appropriate and timely test coverage, as part of the development process. 
• Collaborate with other developers across the production and studio to ensure that supporting code base meets domain needs, and is consistent and modern.  

Qualifications 

• 6+ years of experience as a Software Engineer in the VFX or feature animation industry. 
• Expertise in Python, including the standard library, the Qt Toolkit (PySide, PyQt), and other common 3rd party libraries and frameworks. 
• Experience developing for Mari and/or Substance Painter. 
• Experience with C++ and the Mari C++ APIs, preferred. 
• Experience with other industry DCC apps including Renderman, Katana, Houdini, Maya and/or Nuke, preferred.
• Familiarity with common industry frameworks, including USD, Open Color IO, Open Image IO, and/or OpenExr, preferred.
• Experience with software version control tooling such as git and familiarity with basic multi-branch collaborative workflows, preferred.
• Experience developing for Linux required; Mac and Windows experience, preferred. 

Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to walk; stand; sit; use hands to operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear both in person and by telephone. The employee must lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. 
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee works under typical office conditions and is exposed to variable indoor temperatures. The noise level is usually quiet or moderate.  

Location 
On-Site in Hillsboro, OR / and also eligible for hybrid work / Remote Eligible 

Salary 
Salary is commensurate with skills and experience. 

Disclaimer The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

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