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Real-Time C/C++ Software Engineer
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Lexington, MA
The Air Traffic Control and Weather Systems Group is looking for a real-time C/C++ software engineer who can contribute to the development of a replacement for the ASR-9 Weather System…
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Forensic Civil/Structural Engineer - Northeast USA
Rimkus
Remote, United States
…interviews, overseeing field testing, reviewing construction and/or design drawings, contracts, or specifications, and/or reviewing historical…
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Forensic Civil/Structural Engineer - Northeast USA
Rimkus
Remote, United States
…interviews, overseeing field testing, reviewing construction and/or design drawings, contracts, or specifications, and/or reviewing historical…
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Forensic Civil/Structural Engineer - Northeast USA
Rimkus
Remote, United States
…interviews, overseeing field testing, reviewing construction and/or design drawings, contracts, or specifications, and/or reviewing historical…
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Software Engineer III
Reflexive Concepts
Columbia, MD
Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled Software Engineer III to join our team!
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DevOps Engineer II
Reflexive Concepts
Columbia, MD
Reflexive Concepts is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer II to join our team!
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Senior Water/Wastewater Client Account Leader
Arcadis
Greensboro, NC · Cary, NC · Charlotte, NC
- $150,000 to $200,000 USD / year
We are looking for an experienced, hands-on leader to manage active assignments, provide technical and project delivery leadership, build strong client relationships, and guide…
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Sr. Design Project Manager - Large Projects
Arcadis
Dallas, TX · Miami, FL · FL · VA · DC · TX · Phoenix, AZ
The Senior Design Manager leads integrated design delivery for large, complex, multidisciplinary projects. The role is responsible for aligning design teams, client requirements, technical…
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Entry-Level Environmental Engineer / Scientist / Geologist
Loureiro Engineering Associates, Inc.
Plainville, CT
- $67,000 to $75,000 USD / year
Diverse Project Experience: Gain exposure to environmental investigations, remediation, engineering design, construction oversight, and regulatory compliance across a variety of projects.
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Software Engineer - Salesforce Sales/Health Cloud
Humana Inc.
Louisville, KY · Atlanta, GA · Boston, MA · Charlotte, NC · Chicago, IL · Dallas, TX · Fort Lauderdale, FL · Nashville, TN · New York, NY · Tampa, FL · Washington, DC
Humana is seeking a Software Engineer 2 to help develop and support Salesforce Health Cloud solutions that power our growing Primary Care business. In this role, you will contribute to…
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Senior Systems Engineer
KBR
Beavercreek, OH
Address System Interoperability During Design:
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Top Secret Clearance)
STR
Woburn, MA
SDD is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to support the design, development, and implementation of real-time processing solutions in software for advanced multi-function Radar…
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Structural Staff Engineer
Salas O'Brien
Oakland, CA · San Diego, CA
- $90,000 to $105,000 USD / year
Provide full life-cycle project design from kick-off to construction document production and construction oversight
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Structural Project Engineer
Salas O'Brien
HI
- $105,000 to $140,000 USD / year
The Structural Project Engineer serves to participate in the development of structural drawings while applying building code provisions and interpreting material design standards.
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Land Development Team Lead, Senior Project Manager
VHB
Charlotte, NC
- $150,000 to $180,000 USD / year
We’re hiring a Land Development Team Lead, Senior Project Manager to join our Land Development Planning & Design team in Charlotte, NC.
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Town Engineer
Chapin
Chapin, SC
The Town of Chapin is seeking a licensed Professional Engineer to serve as Town Engineer for the Utilities Department. This position is the Town’s primary technical lead for water…
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Staff Fire Protection Engineer - Aviation & Federal (Minneapolis)
Burns & McDonnell
Minneapolis/St Paul, MN
The Staff Fire Protection Engineer will perform the design work on multi-discipline projects and prepare comprehensive fire protection packages including fire suppression, fire alarm, smoke…
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Water Resources - Project Manager
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
As a Water Resource Engineer for Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) in our Knoxville, TN office, you’ll work collaboratively within an employee-owned firm while supporting…
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Systems Engineer III - Design
SmartTech Contracting LLC
Remote, United States
- $78,750 to $95,812.5 USD / year
Position Title: Systems Engineer III - Design
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AV Architect
By Light Professional IT Services LLC
Hanover, MD
Ability to design and engineer complete AV systems
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CAD Designer
VPD Government Solutions
Remote, United States
Updating and Revising Documentation: Incorporating feedback, "redlines" (engineer markups), and design changes into existing drawings, maintaining clear revision histories and version…
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Civil/Site Senior Project Manager
Colliers Engineering & Design
Hamilton, NJ
- $131,670 to $186,780 USD / year
Colliers Engineering & Design is seeking a Senior Project Manager that will utilize leadership and engineering skills to manage multiple projects and train support staff in our Hamilton, NJ…
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Web Developer
CACI
Chantilly, VA · Chantilly
…with fellow developers on code reviews, troubleshooting, and design decisions. This role offers the opportunity to take ownership of development tasks, improve existing applications,…
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Sr. Process Engineer, R1 Body AI/ML
Rivian
Normal, IL
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CQV Engineer I
PM Group
Rahway, NJ
- $75,000 to $90,000 USD / year
This is an entry-level career position and we are looking for a CQV Engineer who enjoys client interaction as well as the technical aspects of the position. This individual needs to have a…

Pixar Animation Studios

Staff Engineer, Storage Metadata and Context

United States

$182,835 to $236,610 USD / year

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Pay: $182,835 to $236,610 USD / year
Experience: 3+ Years of Software-Driven Infrastructure: Recent experience in scale environments where you've transitioned manual workflows into programmatic, API-driven services
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 3, 2026

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Every great creative project needs a spark - and we’re the team that collaborates to support and organize the digital media behind the magic. As our data scales, we want to close a growing context gap between our technical storage hierarchies and the natural language of our creative teams.

As a Staff Engineer at the intersection of Data Platforms and AI, you will architect the software layers that enable our production-facing storage to become context-aware. Your mission is to design the APIs, Metadata services, and MCP implementations that allow AI agents to navigate and reason across Petabytes of high-value media assets. You will help to bridge the gap between traditional HPC protocols and a modern Agentic ecosystem.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Architect Semantic Connectivity: Develop and maintain the software layer that exposes existing NAS environments (NFS, SMB, S3) to AI agents and LLM frameworks through modern API abstractions and MCPs
Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP): Lead the implementation of MCP servers to provide a standardized interface for AI models to safely and efficiently browse, read, and interpret data within our HPC storage
Semantic Discovery & Agentic Connectivity: Design automated systems to deconstruct the implicit context stored in long-path hierarchies and file headers, architecting the "connective tissue" (REST, gRPC, MCP) that enables AI agents to resolve complex creative queries without needing direct knowledge of underlying mount paths or protocols
Cross-Disciplinary Collaborator: Act as a critical "bridge" across technical storage teams, software tool designers, and creative artists - adapting your communication style to translate deeply technical concepts into practical, workflow-enhancing solutions for non-technical users
Data & Metadata Orchestration: Manage the state and relationship between raw file data and its digital twin in the metadata layer, ensuring that relational and semantic data remain in sync as the studio library evolves
Context Feature Enablement: Enable "smart" features within existing storage such as auto-tagging, similarity search, and automated summarizing
On-call: Ability to participate in an on-call rotation for critical issues

QUALIFICATIONS:

Full-Stack Storage Expertise: Ability to bridge the gap between the data center and the AI agent. You leverage your background in architecting, managing, and troubleshooting physical and/or virtual storage solutions to inform how agentic workflows and metadata pipelines access underlying data at petabyte scale
Broad Protocol Knowledge: Expertise in how data is accessed and managed across NFS, SMB, and S3. You understand the nuances of file-locking, permissions, and latency across different storage protocols
API & Middleware Development: Proven experience building APIs (REST, gRPC) and middleware that sit between raw storage and application layers
Model Context Protocol (MCP) & AI Tooling: Understanding of MCP and how to build tool-calling interfaces for LLMs
Metadata Engineering: Proven ability to design schemas and indexing pipelines using Kafka, ElasticSearch, or Vector DBs to represent physical files as semantic entities
3+ Years of Software-Driven Infrastructure: Recent experience in scale environments where you've transitioned manual workflows into programmatic, API-driven services
The Translator Mindset: Ability to translate abstract creative needs (e.g., "I need to see all iterations of this scene") into technical metadata queries that return precise results
Versatile Backend Development: High degree of comfort working across various programming languages to build the foundational "glue" that connects storage metrics and file data to agentic frameworks; deep proficiency in Python is a significant plus

PREFERRED SKILLS:

Modern AI Frameworks: Hands-on experience with agentic libraries, with a focus on building custom data connectors and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures
Containerization & Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for scaling metadata extraction and embedding workers
HPC Awareness: Understanding of the performance characteristics of high-end storage (Vast, NetApp, StorageGrid, AWS) and how to minimize the overhead of metadata operations
Creative Pipeline Interest: A passion for digital content creation and an interest in how AI can accelerate and modernize production workflows

The hiring range for this position in Emeryville is $182,835.00 to $236,610.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

Pixar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We know our storytelling is at its best when we include, celebrate and embrace difference. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. We are committed to building a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. Pixar participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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Skills

NAS
Communication skills
Workflow
Troubleshooting
IBM Middleware
Apache Kafka
Elasticsearch
Back-end development
Programming languages
Python
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Content creation

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