# Staff Engineer, Storage Metadata and Context

Every great creative project needs a spark-and we’re the team that collaborates to support and organize the digital media behind the magic. As our data scales, we want to close a growing context gap between our technical storage hierarchies and the natural language of our creative teams.As a Staff Engineer at the intersection of Data Platforms and AI, you will architect the software layers that enable our production-facing storage to become context-aware. Your mission is to design the APIs, Metadata services, and MCP implementations that allow AI agents to navigate and reason across Petabytes of high-value media assets. You will help to bridge the gap between traditional HPC protocols and a modern Agentic ecosystem. RESPONSIBILITIES: Architect Semantic Connectivity: Develop and maintain the software layer that exposes existing NAS environments (NFS, SMB, S3) to AI agents and LLM frameworks through modern API abstractions and MCPs Implement Model Context Protocol (MCP): Lead the implementation of MCP servers to provide a standardized interface for AI models to safely and efficiently browse, read, and interpret data within our HPC storage Semantic Discovery & Agentic Connectivity:

- **Id**: 3724349
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pixar-animation-studios-staff-engineer-storage-metadata-and-context>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Emeryville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T09:48:58Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 10
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5229
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Film Production, Animation

## Company

- **Id**: 1755172
- **Name**: Pixar Animation Studios
- **Domain**: pixar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pixar-com>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

## Salary

- **Min**: 182835
- **Max**: 236610
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 236610

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Digital Twin** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **gRPC** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 10

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T04:32:04Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.663
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:8, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 236610
- **Is top pay**: no

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