Pipeline Developer, Assets R&D

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The opportunity

Want the opportunity to help bring a Hollywood block-buster to life by helping build Weta Digital's industry-leading technology? Join a small development team in our mission to provide the best artistic experience possible to our users. Help add unique, award-winning realism to everything from dragons, highly evolved apes, and avenging superheroes to distant planets, fantastic jungles, and incredible future cities!

We need people who are self-motivated with strong problem-solving and communication skills who will excel as a member of a small team. Work with us to build production-ready artist workflows atop scalable infrastructure. This is an opportunity to grow your own skills and knowledge base (and to help your peers do the same!)

This is a technical position in a dynamic atmosphere, with projects and responsibilities that constantly evolve in the crucible of movie and TV production. Organisation and passion will be key to your success in this role, you’ll need to have an eye for working toward long term solutions while simultaneously delivering immediate functionality.

What you’ll be doing

  • Collaborate with your team to design, develop, maintain and support artist-facing tools and the back-end systems that support them.
  • Interact directly with the artists in the Modelling, Layout, Virtual Art Production and Facial Modelling/Rigging departments to support them in their day to day mission to deliver incredible looking images to the client.
  • Work closely with other developers, engineers, and TDs from and across the organisation to complete projects that span the length of the production pipeline.

What we’re looking for

We need candidates with:

  • An industry related degree or equivalent experience as a developer
  • Intermediate to Advanced Python skills with experience in PySide/PyQt and interacting with database services
  • Experience using Maya, Houdini, or similar DCCs and their APIs

You might also have

  • Production experience as an Artist/TD in VFX, Animation, or similar production pipelines
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Agile practices
  • Expertise in other development languages


Life at Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

Unity is at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

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