Software Engineer Intern
The Walt Disney Company
internship
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Location Type: Office
Location: Bristol • Connecticut, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $42 per hour
Job Level
Entry Level
Tech Stack
Python
About the role
- As a Software Engineer, build infrastructure, tools, and services to support data-rich automation friendly real-time graphics systems.
- You’ll design and optimize Unreal Engine 5 environments for LED stages and real-time broadcast, ensuring every frame meets both artistic and technical excellence.
- Develop and debug software enhancements for game engine pipelines and features in Unreal Engine 5, and create technical documentation.
- Collaborate with creatives and engineers to ensure alignment between requirement and data-enriched assets in-engine production.
- Unreal Engine creative development, including CG asset creation and automation enhancement using Unreal Engine Blueprint scripting.
- Research emerging technologies and participate in next-generation automation tool development.
Requirements
- Current Disney Interns, College, International, or Culinary Program Participants: You may only work for ONE consecutive year (12 months) in any combination of an internship and/or program.
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Possess unrestricted work authorization
- Working knowledge of version control systems such as Perforce or Git
- Experience writing or debugging Python, C++, or Unreal Engine Blueprint
- Knowledge of CG asset creation and optimization (Maya, Blender, Adobe)
- Basic understanding of data structures, APIs, and client-server communication, with curiosity about how data flows through real-time graphics systems.
- Education: Junior or Senior year preferred. Currently enrolled undergraduate student in an accredited college/university, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Game Engineering, Game and Interactive Design, Systems Engineering or related field.
Benefits
- Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Unreal Engine 5PythonC++Unreal Engine BlueprintCG asset creationdata structuresAPIsclient-server communicationgame engine pipelinesautomation enhancement
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationcreativityproblem-solvingtechnical excellence