Pipeline Technical Director
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Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field is required.
- Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining tools for use in a computer graphics environment is required.
- At least 5 years of production experience in visual effects for film, commercials, or television is required.
- Proficiency in Linux is required.
- Advanced Python scripting is required.
- Experience with one or more of Maya, Nuke, Houdini, Mari, Katana, RenderMan, or similar software is required.
- Ability to communicate across disciplines and provide innovative solutions to pipeline issues is required.
- A detail-oriented and self-sufficient approach to troubleshooting is required.
- A thorough understanding of the visual effects process, from shooting through modeling and texturing, animation, rendering, and compositing, is required.
Responsibilities
- Develop pipeline and asset management tools to meet immediate show-directed production demands, ensuring facility-wide consistency as directed by show and technical supervisors.
- Help maintain existing workflows and scripts.
- Provide front-line production support across a wide range of disciplines, troubleshoot assets and shots, and assist artists with general problem-solving.
- Monitor email requests, package problems, and redirect them to the appropriate engineering team.
- Test and validate tools and techniques in production, working with engineering teams to test and release new and modified software systems.
- Act as an on-call resource for show production staff.
- Collaborate with artists, production supervisors, and technical staff across ILM studios.
- When not assigned to shows, serve on software teams working on projects that improve asset setup, caching, and shot-data handoff between artists across the pipeline.
- Identify day-to-day priorities with show supervisors and act autonomously.
- Work primarily on highly complex tools requiring a broad understanding of the larger pipeline.
- Assist junior Pipeline Technical Directors with front-line support, resolve complex user errors, and guide Pipeline Engineers and R&D in debugging technical issues.
- Develop comprehensive knowledge of software and systems and contribute to evolving production standards and conventions.
- Update pipeline and tool documentation to reflect changes.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with production database systems is preferred.
- Experience with C and C++ is preferred.
- Experience with Windows development and applications such as 3ds Max is a plus.
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