Software Engineer - Rendering

Netflix • Vancouver, BC

37d • $124,000 - $179,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Netflix Animation Studios is on a mission to entertain the world with bold, immersive animated films that are timeless and impactful. We are paving the way for the future of animation by building a community of amazing artists and talent across three vibrant locations globally. Come join us!
Job Summary:
Are you a Software Engineer interested in joining our core R&D group to develop and enhance our proprietary rendering software (Glimpse); including our state-of-the-art rendering engine, shading system, and scene representation? If the answer is yes, then read on!
For more information on Glimpse

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience developing 3D rendering software using C++ in high performance computing environments.
• Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Have a background in film, animation, television, visualization, games, or come fresh out of academia with a strong focus on computer graphics.
• Strong mathematical skills and familiarity with numerical methods, probability and statistics used for rendering such as Monte Carlo integration and importance sampling
• A talent and passion for optimisation and a working knowledge of efficient spatial data structures.
• A thorough understanding of photorealistic rendering, light transport and global illumination techniques.
• A passion for algorithms, optimization, and data structures.
• Working knowledge of shading technologies such as RSL, OSL, GLSL
• An ability to work in a challenging environment, take direction and possess good communication skills.
• Willingness to work in a highly dynamic production environment and collaborate with artistic staff.
• Excellent verbal, written, and e-social communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Real-time rendering experience.
• Exposure to raytracing and shading technologies such as Embree and OIIO/OpenPGL/RSL/OSL/GLSL.
• Experience with developing shading or raytracing algorithms on massively parallel architectures such as multi-threaded CPUs and GPUs.
• Practice in writing high performance code, vectorized code, with a good understanding of parallel programming, compilers and optimization.
• Familiarity with DCC applications such as Houdini and Maya, including their APIs.

Responsibilities

• Work on all aspects of the renderer, including scene representation, render and sampling engine, raytracer, shading system: everything required for generating highly realistic images for our films.
• Create and maintain tools that are directly used in our lighting, shading, and compositing workflows.
• Closely collaborate with technically minded artists to design, implement and rapidly deploy into production.
• Be part of a small, dynamic and self-motivated team of individuals with varied backgrounds.
• Take on responsibility, get stuff done, and make our artists happy!
• Collaborate with grace, humility, inclusion, and open-mindedness.

Benefits

• NAS benefits can include medical/dental/vision plans, mental health support, retirement programs, and family-forming benefits, paid leave of absence programs, and paid time away programs to be used for vacation and sick paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level