Press Releases

 

Past Press Releases

Digieffects Announces Immediate Availability Delirium, Damage and Buena Depth Cue v2.5

Hello, SkaterGirl’s Julian Bleecker Mesmerizes with Digieffects’ Camera Mapper

Digieffects Enters Remote Management Market with the Launch of RenderMon Web Service

Digieffects Will Be Ready for FCPX

Digieffects Integrates Sophisticated, Workflow-Enhancing Innovations into Delirium and Damage Family

Digieffects Unveils Multilayer Strategic Agreement with Roxio at NAB 2011

Digieffects Announces Support for Apple FxPlug at NAB 2011; Builds Native Support for Final Cut Pro

Digieffects Debuts New Streamlined 64-Bit VFX Plug-Ins at NAB 2011

Digieffects Launches New Academic Discount Program

Digieffects Unveils New Product Line Strategy For 2011; VFX Plug-In Family To Be More Flexible

Digieffects Streamlines, Strengthens VFX Plug-In Product Line with Launch of Buena Depth Cue V2

Digieffects Announces Highly-Anticipated Delirium V2

Digieffects Teams Up with Roxio to Deliver Video Stabilization Technology to Consumer Market

Digieffects Announces Depth Plugin for After Effects

Digieffects Bundles FreeForm with Adobe CS5

Digieffects Announces FreeForm 3D Mesh Warp, FreeForm 3D Displacer & Damage 2.0

Digieffects Launches Atmosphere Plugin for After Effects

Digieffects Launches Falloff Lighting Plugin for After Effects

Digieffects Launches Aged Film for only $29

Digieffects Launches Camera Mapper Plugin for After Effects

Digieffects® launches FreeForm AE at NAB 2009

Digieffects® Reports 109% Revenue Growth in 2008

Digieffects® and Toolfarm to Slash Prices by 50% December 9th - 11th, 2008

Digieffects® Ships Simulate: Camera

Digieffects® Ships Simulate: Illuma

Digieffects™ Ships Damage

Tim Kolb Joins Digieffects

Digieffects Updates Buena Depth Cue and Buena Effects Pack

Digieffects Acquires Walker Effects Plugins

Digieffects Adds Universal Binary Support

Red Giant Software Acquires Digieffects Cinelook

Digieffects Appoints New European Distributor

Digieffects Introduces Electronic Software Downloads and Slashes Prices

Digieffects Acquires Buena Software from Toolfarm

Digieffects Acquired by Industry Veteran

DigiEffects announces CineLook 2™ Special visual effects plug-ins for After Effects

Digieffects Introduces Its Newest Set of Plug-Ins for Adobe After Effects to enhance creativity

Digieffects Careers: Lead Engineer


Wilmington, NC - December 02, 2011
 
Job Description:
Lead Engineer
 
 
Introduction:
 
Digieffects develops, publishes and distributes special effects tools for digital video & film professionals. Our products are available as plug-ins for popular video editing and effects applications, including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Grass Valley Edius, Roxio Creator Pro, Magix Movie Edit Pro and Magix Video Pro X. In the near future we plan to support additional host applications such as Avid Media Composer, Sony Vegas, Sony Vegas Movie Studio,Corel VideoStudio Pro, Pinnace Studio, The Foundry Nuke and others.
 
Digieffects is currently looking for a lead engineer to take over direction and execution of all engineering work for the company. This position is hands-on and entails heavy programming. This position reports to the president and works closely with the product marketing manager.
 
The ideal candidate has between 8 to 12 years of industry experience in programming and managing the product ship cycle.
 
 
Responsibilities:
  • Work with product marketing manager to assure on time product delivery.
  • Coordinate and direct projects related to all engineering efforts.
  • Manage several outside programming contractors and 3rd party partners when necessary.
  • Manage internal build/release engineering and external quality assurance testers.
  • Implement engineering processes that will lead to department productivity improvements.
  • Provide architectural and technical guidance to product development projects.
  • Deliver finished, high quality software products.
  • Work on code maintenance and bug fixing as necessary.
  • Provide technical assistance to support staff and quality assurance as necessary.
  • Provide general programming assistance to other programmers/projects as needed.
 
 
Required Skills:
  • 8+ years experience writing C/C++ code for Windows and Macintosh platforms.
  • 2+ years experience of successful product and engineering management.
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Visual Studio and Apple XCode tools.
  • Experience working with 3rd party libraries and APIs.
  • Experience successfully shipping high quality desktop software.
  • Familiarity with GPU technologies (OpenGL, CUDA, OpenCL) a plus.
  • Experience with web technologies such as PHP, MySQL and relational databases a plus.
  • Work on code maintenance and bug fixing as necessary.
  • Experience using and creating projects with video editing and compositing tools mentioned above a plus.
 
 
Other Requirements:
  • Enjoy working with others in a team atmosphere.
  • Prefer a small-business, fast paced working environment.
  • Enjoy maintaining/enhancing code to meet changing customer/industry needs.
  • Have a "customer-service" orientation.
  • Have an ability to work without being micromanaged.
 
Please provide at least three references.
 
 
Contact:
 
Robert Sharp
President
robert@digieffects.com

Adobe After Effects, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro and Grass Valley Edius Plug-ins.