Senior Pipeline Developer - Open Digital Asset (ODA)

Sony Pictures Imageworks is located on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. We are committed to respecting traditional lands, and working with communities towards reconciliation. Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada Inc.

Benefits

per company policy: include healthcare, tuition reimbursement, RRSP's, Sick and Vacation leave, standard increases as applicable Role overview: We’re looking for a Senior Pipeline Developer to help design, build and implement the Open Digital Asset (ODA) platform — a framework for exchanging standardized, high-fidelity 3D assets across studios and pipelines. The ODA mission is to drastically reduce technical barriers and complexity in sharing 3D assets across the Sony Entertainment landscape, thereby unlocking creative collaboration and transmedia production opportunities. Following from an initial prototype and then establishing a low-friction asset exchange across Sony Entertainment, the program aims to promote adoption further across the wider industry.

The Open Digital Asset project is built on the belief that harnessing universal standards for interchange and collaboration in digital media is instrumental for the industry as a whole. Working under our Principal Engineer, you’ll get hands-on experience with complex production assets, help turn exploratory prototypes into robust tooling, and collaborate closely with engineers, and creative stakeholders across animation, VFX, and games. This role sits at the intersection of USD architecture, real-world studio pipelines, and open standards.

If you enjoy solving messy interoperability problems, care deeply about the benefit of standards, and want your work to make an impact on the industry at large, then this role is for you. g. RDF, JSON-LD, schemas, etc), supporting asset identity, provenance, validation, and cross-pipeline interoperability.

You will also collaborate on developer-facing APIs and lightweight web tooling where appropriate.