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Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada Inc.

725 Granville Street, 5th Floor

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V7K 1Y4

Project based, Full Time

Language in work environment - English

Benefits per company policy: include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP’s, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable

Job summary

The role will play a vital role in supporting our efforts to develop non-photorealistic rendering techniques at Sony Imageworks.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work on some of the industry’s most demanding styles. We seek someone with a creative/technical balance who can work closely with artists and help us translate their requirements into a roadmap for advancing our non-photorealistic rendering platform. 

You should understand artist tools for painting, illustration, and composition.

You should have a solid grasp of developing tools for the NPR pipeline. Films such as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Mitchells Vs. The Machines are examples of art-based rendering that exemplify the various styles we have achieved at Imageworks. 

You will join the Development Group and work within the compositing team. In addition to gaining experience with advanced compositing and non-photorealistic rendering techniques, you’ll be uniquely positioned to work alongside artists and engineers to deliver the next generation of tools to advance future productions. In accordance with your interests, you can also contribute to other disciplines within the software group. 

What You’ll Do:

• Design solutions in Nuke and potentially other DCCs
• Write tools and plugins for the compositing department
• Integrate your solutions with the compositing teams
• Reduce artist iteration time as well as find efficiencies through more streamlined toolsets
• Work directly with NPR specialists to discover solutions that create amazing images for our films
• Contribute to our efforts of solving NPR problems at the compositing level with blinkScripts and plugins

What You Bring:

• Experience programming in Python and C++
• Bachelor in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience with Nuke’s Python APIs, NDK, gizmos, BlinkScript, and compositing workflows
• A minimum of 3 years creating libraries, custom plugins, and UI tools for VFX studio
• Knowledge of compositing, lighting and studio pipeline development
• Knowledge of different artistic styles and mediums
• Experience with UNIX / Linux / git
• Knowledge of third-party graphics applications (e.g. Maya, Houdini, Katana, Unreal)
• Experience with USD
• Experience in the design and implementation of systems in complex libraries
• History of making tools for artists in a production environment (preferably stylized animated features)
• Knowledge of user interface design and standard UI toolkits, specifically QT/PyQT
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality software in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

The anticipated base salary for an Intermediate position is $129,000 to $185,250/yr. This role may also qualify for annual incentive and/or comprehensive benefits per company policy: including healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP’s, sick and vacation leave, standard increases as applicable. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location of the position.

We value unique perspectives, and want diverse, unique talent to work with us. We encourage candidates from all identities to apply.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.