General Summary

A Junior Technical Director (TD) in Production Technology provides critical support to a show's artists and department heads. A Technical Director will design, develop, and implement new tools and processes for a particular show or department. The ideal candidate is a collaborative team player who has a deep love of developing Animation, automotive, and VFX production pipelines, and is excited to explore the possibilities to innovate and advance the art of animated film technology.

Description

• Create an impressive and flexible pipeline.
• Build production tools to enable artists to work more effectively.
• Continually looking for ways to optimize the efficiency/workflow for the pipeline
• Grow, learn, and develop your skills by keeping up to date on the latest production technology.
• Develop new ways of utilizing the cloud to speed up and improve animated content creation.
• Inspire artists through new and innovative techniques.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure tools and infrastructure deliver at the highest level for our artists.
• Participate in pipeline workflow and development design.
• Develop quality, reusable code.
• Liaise with artists and supervisors to gather pipeline requirements.
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the development process.
• Stay up to date with the latest technologies and industry trends.
• Provide software and tools support to production and artists.
• Troubleshoot technical issues.

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of animation feature film, visual effects, and/or games experience.
• 3+ years developing with Python. Experience with MEL and Maya C++ API is helpful.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years using industry standard tools such as Maya, Houdini, arnold, redhift and/or VRay in a production environment.
• Experience with Alembic, Pixar USD, OpenTimelineIO, OpenColorIO, and/or OpenVDB
• Interest in AI/Machine Learning to develop new ways to create 3D animated content.
• Positive attitude and growth mindset
• Enjoy teaching and sharing new workflows and ideas
• Capable of presenting complex solutions in an innovative, compelling, and easy to understand way
• Able to take direction and innovate
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
• Familiar with cloud technologies
• A good understanding of the VFX or feature Animation production pipeline.
• Excellent knowledge of Python.
• Strong understanding of Linux/windows.
• Excellent knowledge of one or more of the following software: Maya, Katana, Houdini or Nuke.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to prioritize production needs and tasks

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.