Engineering & Realtime Rendering Expression of

4 months ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Weta Digital Full time

**- EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
***:
Are you a forward-thinking software engineer that is enthusiastic about collaborating with and helping users create visually stunning films? If you enjoy writing high quality, performant code which enables faster evaluation and more artist iterations, we want to talk to you

Wētā FX is evaluating potential upcoming senior and mid-level roles across our Software Engineering and Rendering departments. These opportunities will have you working to accelerate artist workflows through real-time interactivity.

**What We Are Looking For**:

- Ability to communicate quantitative and qualitative impact of a proposed solution.
- 4+ years of professional experience and a degree in Computer Science OR equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated commitment to high engineering standards, including writing maintainable code, comprehensive documentation, and embracing automated testing.
- Ability to collaborate across departments. You like working in teams and building better solutions together with

**_Rendering Department_**

**What You Will Be Doing**:

- Researching and implementing the latest graphics technologies and techniques.
- Write and maintain high-quality, performant software to meet the demands of our dynamic environment.
- Helping design and evolve a highly performant and robust real-time rendering architecture that scales to complex production demands
- Maintaining a custom Graphics Rendering API for Vulkan and OpenGL
- Engage with artistic departments and stakeholders to understand pain points and bottlenecks to improve existing tools and design new innovative solutions.
- Collaborate with multiple technology departments on joint initiatives towards common performance and efficiency goals.

**You Might Also Have**:

- Experience in the Visual Effects (VFX) or game development industry as well as understanding of a production pipeline.
- Experience writing plugins for DCCs (Digital Content Creation) tools such as Maya or Houdini.
- Solid understanding of past and current real-time rendering techniques
- Experience with modern OpenGL and Vulkan and techniques such as GPU-Driven Rendering, Ray Tracing and Bindless Rendering
- Knowledge of current GPU and CPU profiling tools including Nsight Graphics, RenderDoc and Vtune
- Familiarity with the foundations of physically based shading models
- Strong working experience with Python is a plus.
- Ability to cater technical information to audiences of varying backgrounds.
- Used one or more parallel programming frameworks such as OpenCL/CUDA.

**_Engineering Department_**

**What You Will Be Doing**
- Helping design and evolve a highly performant and robust real-time software architecture that scales to complex production demands
- Engage with artistic departments and stakeholders to understand pain points and bottlenecks to improve existing tools and design new innovative solutions.
- Collaborate with multiple technology departments on joint initiatives towards common performance and efficiency goals.

**You Might Also Have**:

- Experience in the Visual Effects (VFX) or game development industry as well as understanding of a production pipeline.
- Experience writing plugins for DCCs (Digital Content Creation) tools such as Maya or Houdini.
- Strong working experience with Python is a big plus.
- Ability to cater technical information to audiences of varying backgrounds.
- Experience authoring content with animation rigging tools.
- Developed 3D geometry deformers.
- Used one or more parallel programming frameworks such as OpenCL/CUDA.

At Wētā FX we celebrate our diversity and believe in creating an environment where all our crew feel welcomed, respected, supported and appreciated. We define ourselves by the quality of our work, and we’re striving to build a workplace experience that’s second to none. Here at Wētā FX we value open minds and encourage our crew to be themselves.

Location: Wellington, NZ



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