Blender Shares New Job Opportunities

Team and Responsibilities

• You'll join the product team, working alongside a senior designer and the head of product
• Collaboration with developers
• Support the development team by providing feedback and making final design decisions throughout the project/feature life cycle
• All your work will be developed in the open and released as open source

Qualifications

• Skilled in problem solving
• Gather requirements and feedback via user research and other means
• Demonstrated ability to produce quality work on time and within the specifications of the project
• Design and concept development skills, attention to detail, and organizational skills
• Oral, written, and presentation skills with the ability to clearly communicate ideas in English through documents, wireframes, user flows, mockups, briefs, sketches, etc.
• Ability to quickly experiment, test, and iterate user interface concepts
• Experience working with graphic designers and developers to see your vision through execution
• Ability to multitask projects with competing priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Education and/or Experience

• Formal education in the fields of design, fine arts, user experience design, computer interaction, communication design, interface design, or HCI
• Three or more years of related professional experience
• Or an equivalent proven combination of education and experience

Goals

• General project coordination and planning for all development activities
• Help the development team make project plans and support the Head of Development in daily tasks

Responsibilities

• Manage HQ and remote team, with the support of our remote Development Coordinator (Thomas) and Head of Operations/HR
• Scheduling: facilitating organization
  • Overall project schedule with the leadership team
  • Detailed schedules per team or module
• Communication
  • Day-to-day follow-up with the team, feedback
  • Mediation between teams and people
  • Facilitating communication with the community and contributors, with Thomas
  • Help teams write and publish articles on code.blender.org
• Onboarding new developers, with Thomas
• Aligning goals with the leadership team

Requirements

• Fluent written and spoken English
• Experience in a similar role at an organization of approximately 25-80 people, with a preference in a cultural, media, and/or technology environment
• Open-minded and willing to iterate on a feature based on feedback.
• Eager to work with and keep up to date with new technologies
• Team player with people skills: patience, care, humor, and curiosity

Nice to haves

• Experience working with open-source projects
• Familiar with software development management tools and processes (Gitea, Agile…)
• Social, easy to communicate with, friendly, empathetic

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Blender's real-time render engine EEVEE
• Work with the team to implement new engine features
• Implement new rendering algorithms (PBR and NPR)
• Ensure EEVEE works well and correctly on a wide variety of GPUs within Blender's hardware support policy
• Facilitate and review community contributions
  
  

Requirements

• C++ proficiency
• Strong understanding of PBR rendering pipeline and algorithms
• Understanding of the GPU rendering pipeline
• Ability to read and translate rendering algorithms whitepapers
• Good eye for a clear UI and UX
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Open-minded and willing to iterate on a feature, based on feedback
• Work in a team environment
  
  

Nice to haves

• Experience working with open-source projects
• Relocation to Amsterdam to join the team in the Blender HQ – remote work considered as well
• Drive to expand the area of interest and influence
• Social, easy to communicate with, friendly, empathetic

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain GPU integration of Blender render engines (Cycles and EEVEE)
• Look into platform-specific performance improvements
• Ensure Blender runs on a wide variety of GPUs within Blender's hardware support policy
• Work with a multi-disciplinary team of path-tracing and real-time render engineers.
• Facilitate and review community contributions

Requirements

• C++ proficiency
• Strong understanding of GPU programming stacks: OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal.
• Understanding of GPGPU programming SDKs: CUDA/OptiX, HIP/HIP-RT, Metal, oneAPI
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Open-minded and willing to iterate on a feature, based on feedback
• Work in a team environment

Nice to haves

• Understanding of rendering algorithms (PBR, real-time, and path-tracer)
• Experience working with open-source projects
• Relocation to Amsterdam to join the team in the Blender HQ – we will consider people wanting to work remotely, as well
• Drive to expand the area of interest and influence
• Social, easy to communicate with, friendly, empathetic