Staff Software Engineer - USD Authoring

● Strong experience with C++ (including x11/x14) or equivalent experience

● Strong experience with Python or equivalent experience

● Strong experience with USD (Universal Scene Description)

● Strong experience with Qt (for desktop development) or equivalent experience

● 7+ years experience designing and developing interactive tools, with 3+ years in senior technical roles designing core infrastructure

● Partner with Technology leadership to establish architectural vision for key new frameworks including data models, GUI toolkits, and underlying core libraries and evaluation engines.

● Extensive experience designing APIs from scratch as well as designing APIs that extend existing frameworks.

● Ability to collaborate with team members across different disciplines including directly interfacing with stakeholders to understand requirements

● Experience guiding cross disciplinary teams of engineers over open ended technical problem domains.

● Demonstrated ability to lead development from architectural design to implementation, and through adoption, helping build adoptions plans and strategies with incremental integration milestones through a collaboration with key stakeholders.

● Exemplary communication, teamwork and problem solving skills, balancing the timeliness of solutions with their sustainability. Able to collaborate with team and leadership to prioritize competing demands based on business value.

● BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Bonus Qualifications:

● Understanding of computer graphics foundational concepts, and algorithms

● Knowledge of animation, graphics techniques and algorithms

● Experience building clean interfaces using modern UI development toolkits such as Qt

● Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, aligning engineering efforts with broader organizational, production, or business priorities.

● Ability to mentor and develop engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing, career coaching, and fostering a collaborative team environment.

● Strong mathematical fundamentals, including linear algebra and numerical methods

● Strong understanding of coding process, standards, continuous integration and testing principles

● Masters in Computer Science