Technical Director, Rendering
Pixar
Emeryville, CAThis was removed by the employer on 2/22/2021 2:06:00 PM PST
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As a Technical Director (TD), Rendering, you will work with other production departments and dailies TDs to ensure required renders complete successfully, Identify problems, independently debug them, utilize generalist skills to fix shots and assets, and coordinate efforts with other departments as needed. The right candidate will be proactive in getting ahead of issues, and engaged in anticipating needs of production.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Provide technical support to all of production in the areas of rendering and workflow
• Help optimize our renders to ensure fast turnaround and reasonable render times and memory
• Help debug cleanup and fix artifacts in our final images to ensure they meet our high visual standards
• Assist all departments with setting up review renders needed at all phases of production
• Run sequence reviews, controlling playback and responding to needs of the room
• Guide problem solving conversations across departments
• Interface with production, systems, and tools to address technical issues in these overlapping areas
• Monitor renders on the renderfarm and ensure efficient usage of systems resources
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Education in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or a related field
• A strong eye coupled with a strong sense of technical cost, guiding sequences towards the right solution for a problem
• A helpful, customer-service attitude coupled with a love of the thrill of the hunt in debugging complicated pipeline issues
• Strong familiarity with computer graphics concepts such as rendering, and compositing
• Required skills include scripting or programming in C, C++, Python, or similar languages, as well as familiarity with one or more key production software programs such as Maya, RenderMan, Nuke, Katana, or Houdini
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required for communicating with the team, management, and other departments
• Must be able to context switch under pressure, transitioning amongst solo and collaborative tasks
• Must be a team player who is open to direction, and able to respond to changing production needs