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Sony Pictures Imageworks

High-end visual effects and animation services

Senior Technical Developer - Multiple Teams

Software EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMontreal, QC, CanadaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • The role requires 3–5+ years of professional experience developing procedural workflows and tools in a visual effects, animation, or game production environment.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the Houdini environment, including tool creation, optimization, and workflow techniques is required.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and VEX for writing efficient custom nodes and tool wrappers is required.
  • Experience developing and supporting production pipeline tools and asset delivery is required.
  • Experience leveraging the Houdini API and other digital content creation applications such as Katana is required.
  • A strong grasp of 3D mathematics, linear algebra, and data structures applied to geometry processing and simulation is required.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving are required.
  • The ability to deliver on multiple competing priorities with little supervision is required.
  • Excellent communication skills in French and English are required for certain job-related tasks, particularly when collaborating with teams, vendors, or partners outside Québec.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and implement scalable procedural systems and workflows in Houdini for FX, Creature, Crowds, and Environments departments.
  • Create, maintain, and optimize Houdini Digital Assets (OTLs), ensuring stability, ease of use, and adherence to production standards.
  • Extend the core pipeline by developing, integrating, and supporting tools that manage data flow, asset publishing, and version control.
  • Collaborate with artists in Creature, FX, and Lighting to gather requirements and troubleshoot technical issues, supporting in-house and commercial tools.
  • Partner with engineers in Shading, Lighting, and Rendering to integrate procedural assets into the overall rendering and compositing pipeline.
  • Document tools and workflows for the wider artistic and engineering teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience developing desktop applications using PyQt or PySide to create custom user interfaces is preferred.
  • Use curiosity and judgment to identify broader or systemic issues and recommend creative approaches to address them.

About the Company

Sony Pictures Imageworks

High-end visual effects and animation services

Sony Pictures Imageworks is a visual effects and animation studio that creates photorealistic visuals for live-action films and full CG features. The company delivers services for projects from early concept design to final visual effects integration, working on creature and character animation as well as large-scale CG sequences. It differentiates itself with a long track record and its own developed software and tools that help solve industry challenges, which it also licenses to other studios as an additional revenue stream. The business mainly earns money by providing VFX and animation work on a project basis and by licensing technology. The studio serves major film studios and production companies worldwide and aims to help productions achieve high-quality visuals while advancing film technology through its proprietary tools and creative output.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Culver City, CA
Founded
1992

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