DreamWorks Animation is looking for a passionate senior graphics software engineer to join our rendering team in building our cutting-edge path tracer MoonRay, as seen in all of our movies from How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls: World Tour, The Wild Robot, award-winning shorts, themed entertainment and more.   We work closely with artists and our focus is to deliver breathtaking images while being massively scalable across single or multiple machines.  We’ve been creating movie magic for over 30 years and we’d love to have you join us.  We have a great, award-winning team and we are looking for an experienced engineer to join us in pushing rendering boundaries. Our work is used directly in the making of our movies, and is always available to the broader VFX and graphics industries and world as a contributed project in the Academy Software Foundation.  Check it out!  https://openmoonray.org

“What would you say you do here?”

•  Research and develop the tools and services for the studio’s rendering needs for features and shorts, themed entertainment, VFX, and future needs.
•  Focus on advanced graphics research and development
• Adapting physically-based path tracing techniques to achieve stylized looks
•  Help build and advance our state of the art rendering technology, MoonRay.    
• Optimize code and algorithms for single (and multi-) machine efficiency and scalability.
• Work with artists to improve the technology in the creation of our movies and advanced productions