Weta Digital is seeking a Researcher to join our Simulation Department.

SIMULATION RESEARCHER

Weta Digital is seeking a Researcher to join our Simulation Department. We are seeking highly motivated candidates who can fulfill the following requirements:

Responsibilities:

Work within a team of leading experts to develop state-of-the-art simulation software for visual effects like water, fire, fluids, muscle, cloth, hair, and plants.
Adapt the latest research results into practical, production quality code
Implement core computational algorithms with a focus on high performance, multi-threading, distributed computing, large scalability and robustness
Analyse and optimize system performance
Improve and maintain existing code to improve quality, reliability and maintainability
Proactively test new and existing features to ensure the highest levels of quality
Provide hands on user support. Find and fix bugs. Author high quality internal and end user documentation
Planning and tracking development tasks, engaging with users, and collaborating with other departments
Design and implement physically realistic material models

Required Qualifications:

Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Physics, Applied Mathematics or a related field.
Solid understand of, and experience with, numerical techniques for solving PDEs and linear systems.
Extensive expertise in software engineering
Proven simulation research expertise
4+ years of experience with C++ development.
Experience in performance analysis and optimization of highly parallel, scalable systems
Ability to work well on a self-directed team in a rapidly changing, deadline oriented environment
A basic understanding of computer graphics and physics based animation/simulation

Desirable Qualifications:

Experience in software development for visual effects or the gaming industry.
GPU compute programming expertise and experience with interactive rendering algorithms
Experience in designing algorithms for MPI based applications
Familiarity with tools and libraries such as Valgrind, tbb, boost, OpenVDB, Vtune, git, JIRA etc
Maya, Houdini or similar SDK expertise.

If this sounds like you, please get in touch, we would love to hear from you.

Location: Wellington - New Zealand
 
Email: [email protected]
Address: P.O Box 15208 9-11 Manuka Street Miramar, Wellington,New Zealand 6022
Phone: + 644 909 6000
Fax: + 644 380 9010
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