Designs, develops, and maintains scalable VFX production pipelines, platforms, plugins, and workflow automation. Collaborates with creative and production teams to resolve bottlenecks, package and deploy tools, document solutions, and support users. The role requires expert Python development, software engineering best practices, pipeline integration with DCC applications and production tracking systems, Linux proficiency, and experience with deployment, testing, containerization, and scalable system design.
We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Senior Pipeline Engineer to join our VFX technology team. As a Senior Pipeline Engineer, you will be instrumental in advancing the boundaries of AI-driven content creation, while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethical AI practices, particularly in the domain of hyper-realistic content generation.
As a member of our pipeline engineering team, you’ll shape our core infrastructure set best practices, communicate with stakeholders and mentor your peers.
This position is perfect for someone with strong software engineering skills and a passion for media production technologies. You’ll work at the intersection of creativity and engineering to design and maintain scalable production pipelines to streamline workflows, and enable world-class storytelling.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain the required platforms, plugins and extensions for 3rd party packages used in the pipeline.
- Collaborate with supervisors, technical directors, and production teams to identify new features and/or bottlenecks, and develop solutions that improve productivity and scalability.
- Automate processes and data flow between departments to streamline production workflows.
- Assist in the packaging and deployment of pipeline tools.
- Write the necessary end-user and developer documentation for developed tools
- Train and support end users on how to use the developed tools.
Must Haves
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Visualization, or VFX required.
- 5+ years experience as a Senior Pipeline Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar role in a VFX, animation, or relevant development environment.
- Expert proficiency in Python; strong experience with other languages (e.g., C++, JavaScript) is a plus.
- Deep understanding of software development best practices: version control (Git), testing, CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Podman), and scalable system design.
- Hands-on experience with DCC applications; such as Nuke, Houdini, Maya, Unreal, and their respective scripting or expression languages (e.g. VEX, TCL) is a strong asset.
- Familiarity with production tracking tools like FPT (Autodesk Flow Production Tracking), ftrack, or similar.
- Experience with asset management systems, render farm management, industry standard review tools and automation scripting.
- Experience with standard UI/UX toolkits.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex technical issues.
- Comfortable working in a Linux-based environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Rez (or similar) for environment and package management.
- Knowledge of Alembic, OpenColorIO, USD (Universal Scene Description) and other open standards from the ASWF.
- Experience with web frameworks (e.g., Flask, FastAPI, Django) and database systems (PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Redis).
- Experience with performance profiling, system monitoring, and observability tools.
- Understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and compliance requirements.
- Open-source contributions or technical writing experience.
- Entrepreneurial mindset or experience working with startups or fast-paced teams.
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