Pixar is excited to announce our new initiative to greatly expand and accelerate our research and development in #USD. Pixar has a long history of creating foundational and innovative technologies in computer graphics and beyond, and we believe that USD has much to offer in the growing challenges of collaboration in 3D world-building and delivering assets at scale.
Universal Scene Description (USD) is the first open-source software that can robustly and scalably interchange 3D scenes that may be composed from many different assets, sources, and animations, while fostering highly collaborative workflows. We’re planning to design and deploy the next generation of features for USD and its imaging framework Hydra and, with the investment and support of The Walt Disney Company, increase our collaboration with the growing USD community while inviting new industries and partners to join. To this end, we are seeking the best software engineers and managers in the industry to come aboard as part of Pixar’s Software R&D and RenderMan teams.
USD has already revolutionized animation and VFX, and we are now further evolving USD to tackle grand challenges facing those fields and many others. If you’d like to join us on this exciting journey, visit www.pixar.com/techjobs for available opportunities!