Junior Software Engineer / Drone Choreographer
AI Summary
Develops drone choreography and software for live events, translating soundtracks into drone movements while building and supporting the choreography pipeline and show operation tools.
About this role
The Team
For our live events department, we are looking for someone who can translate the emotions of a soundtrack into drone choreography while also bringing solid engineering skills to the table. In this role you’ll help create new choreographies for world-class productions such as Eurovision and artists including Celine Dion and Justin Bieber. Beyond the artistic work, you’ll also contribute to the technical backbone: developing our choreography pipeline, implementing new features in our drone show operation software, and improving the support tools that keep our global fleet flying reliably.
Do you thrive at the intersection of art and technology? Do you want to join a fast-moving team where your contributions will make a difference? Then join us!
What you'll do
The role is two-fold. 50% of your time will go to development and support work:
- Developing new features for our drone show operation software and our choreography tools in C++
- Improving and extending Python-based support tools for our growing global fleet
- Providing Level 2 and Level 3 support for ongoing shows
The other 50% is dedicated to creating new and ongoing shows, including:
- Collaborating with clients, directors, and creatives to design drone choreographies
- Programming and testing choreographies for new shows in C++
- Traveling on-site to help deliver shows worldwide
What you bring
- Degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a similar field
- Strong Programming skills in C++ and Python
- A passion for creative work, whether professional or a personal artistic hobby, and a talent for translating artistic ideas into language non-technical stakeholders understand
- Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new topics
Nice to have
- Web development or other modern software tooling experience
- Background in live entertainment, animation, or similar creative fields
- Experience in System and Controls (localization, control, hardware interfaces)
Who you are
- Willingness to travel 10%-20%
- You’re comfortable switching between deep technical work and creative discussions
- You have a start-up mentality and thrive in an environment where you must be flexible and jump into different projects and roles when necessary
- You’re a team player with strong problem-solving skills, capable of working independently in a fast-moving environment
Why Verity?
- A great engineering culture, including flat hierarchies, an open-door policy, and a focus on joint responsibility and mutual trust and support
- Working with a skilled, high-achieving, experienced, and fun team—with lots of opportunities to develop your professional career and grow with the company
- Flexibility of a hybrid work environment. You can arrange start and finish times around your life (picking up kids, walking the dog, training for your next marathon at lunch)
- 25 days of annual leave, employee stock ownership plan (conditions apply), variety of pension plans, and relocation packages
- Annual team-building events, quarterly and monthly get-togethers, knowledge-sharing talks, game nights, and more
- Welcoming office space complete with friendly team members, free snacks (fresh fruits, coffee, and more!), and fun activities—we’re dog-friendly!
Learn more about who we are, what we do, and how we think at www.verity.net
We strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, age, physical [dis]ability, gender identity or length of time spent unemployed.
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