Career Opportunities At Laika

LAIKA Inc., based in Portland Oregon, owned by Phil Knight, co-founder and chairman of Nike have several openings in its Research & Development Group.

LAIKA's Research & Development Department are pioneering many new tools and initiatives, making major contributions to the studio's film and commercial productions including:

• Creating tools and pipeline for Stereoscopic Production (Coraline is the first Stop-Motion Animated Feature to be shot in Stereo);
• Developing new tools to assist in the integration of Computer and Stop-Motion Animation;
• Building from the ground up several types of production pipelines;
• Creating new and new types of tools to assist and aid Computer Animation Production.

Current open positions:

• Software Developer (GUI)
• Software Developer (Stop-Motion)
• Software Manager
• Technical Director (SR)
• Technical Director (Pipeline)
• Technical Director 1 (Shader Writer)
• Technical Director 2 (Shader Writer)
• Technical Director 2 (Compositor)
• Production Support Technician (ATD)
• Project Scheduler (SR)
• Technical Director
• Supervising TD Workflow

For Job Descriptions and to Apply online, visit our jobs section on our website.

For information on LAIKA and for additional employment opportunities visit www.laika.com.

LAIKA/entertainment is currently in production on Neil Gaiman's "Coraline", written for the screen and directed by Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas", "James and The Giant Peach"); and is in pre-production on "Jack & Ben". The company recently purchased the rights to one of the U.K.'s current best-selling children's novels, writer/illustrator Alan Snow's "Here Be Monsters".

LAIKA/house is a dynamic community of filmmakers, designers and animators guided by a legacy of 30 years of animation history. Notorious for its skills in storytelling and character performance, LAIKA/house produces every type of animation in every medium. House recently won the Anicomm (for the second year in a row) for its Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream campaign.

Throughout its history, the company has won 11 Clio Awards, three London International Advertising & Design Awards, five Mobius Advertising Awards, two Cannes Lion International Advertising Festival awards, two Academy Awards, five Academy Awards nominations, 11 Prime time Emmy Awards and honors from the New York International Film & TV Festival, Annecy Awards and Annie Awards, and the World Animation Celebration Festival.