Associate Software Engineer

at  Weta Digital

Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand -

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Immediate23 Apr, 2025Not Specified24 Jan, 20251 year(s) or aboveGood communication skillsNoNo
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Description:

Wētā FX Engineering Department is seeking an enthusiastic Associate Engineer to join our in-house Scene Description team!
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Wētā FX Scene Description team, working on a range of in-house and third-party Scene Description technologies; including Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD). Our mission is to seamlessly transport large scale virtual worlds from the beginning of our pipeline all the way to final lighting and rendering. You will contribute to maintaining backend tools and technologies, as well as front-end user tools and scripts. Your work will involve triaging issues, identifying and resolving bugs and bottlenecks, implementing new features, and much more.
If you are passionate about collaborating with and learning from world-class engineers and want to help artists create visually stunning films, we want to talk to you!
This role will be based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Responsibilities:

  • Triage Issues from various support queues.
  • Participate in design and code reviews.
  • Debug complex issues involving workflows across multiple systems.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and open communication with developers and users across the studio.
  • Contribute to the design, implementation, integration, deployment, and support of a variety of backend and front-end systems relating to Scene Description technologies.


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:1.0Max:6.0 year(s)

Information Technology/IT

IT Software - Application Programming / Maintenance

Software Engineering

Graduate

Computer Science, Engineering

Proficient

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Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand