Lead Innovation Demo Engineer

The Walt Disney CompanyBurbank, CaliforniaOn-siteFull-timeSenior, 5–8 yearsListed 1 day ago

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Job Posting Title:
Lead Innovation Demo Engineer

Req ID:
10164949

Job Description:

Solutions Engineering

Works with multidisciplinary teams to support businesses with adoption, usage, and issue management for our platforms and enterprise applications and services. Responsible for improving application life cycles, evolving software systems to increase their reliability, monitoring application performance, and ensuring overall system health such as high availability, low latency, top performance, high efficiency, effective change management, continuous monitoring & alarming, emergency response, and capacity planning. They act as a bridge between engineering and operations teams by applying a software engineering mindset to product engineering and lead/coordinate live event planning. Develops processes, tools, metrics, and documentation that enhances the customer experience, improves product quality, and reduces the cost of support.

Production Technology

Designs, develops, and implements hardware and software tools and programs to achieve desired functionality for the organization's production and editing systems and to improve the work of artists and technical directors in the production pipeline (e.g., rigging and animation, dynamics, paint, effects, look development tools).  Develops specifications for systems functionality, such as data storage and transfer or 3D image processing.  Develops utilities for systems administrators and users of the system to manage system load, organize systems processes and achieve desired visual effects.  Develops object filing protocols.  Develops, writes, tests and debugs more complex and/or large sectors of code to meet requirements and writes clear, portable and maintainable code.  Maintains documentation.  Research new applications and technologies.  Accountable for on-time, on-budget delivery, and for contributing to the design, functionality and performance of the production and editing systems and software tools code.  Demonstrates proficiency in most areas of the professional function and in-depth specialization in some.  Anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur.  Able to develop and enhance any aspect of the production and editing systems and/or program tools that automate any type of production process.  Typically uses Python, C++, Maya, Nuke, Houdini, UNIX, Mel, and Perl programming and scripting languages

Job Posting Segment:
TWDSTECH

Job Posting Primary Business:
Studio Lab

Primary Job Posting Category:
Production Technology

Employment Type:
Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Burbank, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:
2026-11-12