WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Work with editors and artists to understand requirements and desired workflow.
- Consult with engineering to assess backend capabilities and API integration points.
- Design and build an Avid panel/plugin (Panel SDK, AVX2, or AMA) with a modern, responsive UI.
- Implement secure API integration for search and media retrieval (REST + JSON).
- Manage authentication (OAuth or token-based) and local caching of remote assets.
- Handle media import: download or stream clips, create subclips, and insert them into active sequences or bins.
- Ensure robust error handling, offline tolerance, and smooth user experience.
- Package and sign the plugin across Windows and macOS versions.
- Following the initial project, collaborate on an ongoing basis with backend and design teams to maintain and extend the plugin as platform capabilities grow.
WHO YOU ARE
- BS degree in Computer Science or related fields
- Professional experience building and shipping Avid Media Composer plugins
- Solid understanding of Panel SDK, AVX2, or AMA plugin development
- Proficiency in web integration: REST APIs, async JS, JSON parsing, authentication
- Familiarity with video import, proxies, subclips, and metadata management in pro NLEs
- Experience delivering cross-platform plugin packages, signing, and deployment
- Great communicator, able to explain ideas clearly to both engineers and artists
- Ability to iterate concepts rapidly, given input from target users and product managers
- Proof of eligibility to work in the United States
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The pay offered will take into account internal parity, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors
- Opportunity for continued feature development and maintenance
- Flexible working environment and more!
Top Skills
What We Do
DigitalFish accelerates digital-media innovation for the best-known media companies, production studios, technology leaders and consumer brands worldwide. Our content and the impact of our technology are seen by millions everywhere from the big screens of blockbuster films to mobile- and mixed-reality devices.
DigitalFish has long been a trusted partner of leading digital media companies, and we are at the center of their efforts to build a new generation of platforms and experiences. Current and past customers include Apple, Google, Meta, Disney, DreamWorks, Activision, Technicolor, ESPN, LEGO, NASA and many others.
Founded and led by pioneers from Pixar and Lucasfilm, we started out at the forefront of 3-D animation as a commercially viable medium, and we’ve been leaders in digital-media innovation ever since.
