Technical Development Intern CA, Summer/Fall 2024

Job #6055

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Job Type Internship
Location Glendale, California
Post Date Feb 15, 2024
Salary The pay rate for this role in Glendale, CA is $26.50 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Summary

About the Role & Program

Through innovative storytelling and a culture of collaboration, Disney Live Entertainment creates, produces, and delivers remarkable and engaging entertainment experiences. From the intimate to the spectacular, our work can be seen at Disney theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and other locations the world over! This diverse team – representing a wide variety of subject areas and talents from technical directors, writers, and lighting designers to choreographers, cosmetologists, and music producers – brings magical worlds to life through technical expertise, performance excellence, incomparable ingenuity, unparalleled spectacle… and a dash of pixie dust!

What You Will Do

The Technical Delivery team develops technical strategy and provides Technical Direction and Technical Design to build and deliver live entertainment shows globally.

  • Work on projects that impact our international and domestic offerings

  • Assist with technical research and documentation development

  • Track and review incoming and outgoing communication and deliverables

  • Partner with cross-functional teams including creative, production, designers, consultants, and vendors

  • Support Digital Asset Management system, including ingest, organization and distribution of active and archived digital files

Requirements

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • Passion for technology – whether that’s theatrical systems, video game design, 3d printing, building robots or something else

  • Organized and thorough

  • Strong oral/written communication skills

  • Ability to balance multiple tasks and priorities

  • Experience crafting and delivering compelling presentations, distilling technical details into simple written and visual communication

  • Demonstrated proficiency with Excel, Adobe and PowerPoint or Keynote

  • Proficient with modeling software including CADD (Revit and/or AutoCAD)

  • Experience in an entertainment or theatrical technical environment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Fabrication skills, technical production or design experience

  • Experience working with Unreal Engine or Unity, Illustrator, Photoshop, SketchUp, Maya, Rhino or 3ds Max

  • Familiarity with entertainment programming software (such as MA 3D, Navigator, Hippotizer, Qsys)

  • Interest in new technology, game design, virtual production or software development

Education

  • Junior or Senior, graduate student, or recent graduate earning or completing MFA in a technical design-related field

Required Materials

  • Sample of Technical documentation saved as PDF (upload additional documents, files, or links in the same designated field as the resume/CV)

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

  • Must be enrolled in an accredited college/university taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program OR must have graduated from a college/university within 6 months at time of application posting OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship

  • Must be at least 18 years of age

  • Must not have completed one year of continual employment on a Disney internship or program.

  • Must possess unrestricted work authorization

Additional Information

  • The approximate dates of this internship are June 2024 through December 2024

  • Must have reliable transportation to/from work and provide own housing for the duration internship program located in the Glendale, CA area.

  • The pay rate for this role in Glendale, CA is $26.50 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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