A52 in Santa Monica CA is looking for an experienced pipeline TD

A52/Rock Paper Scissors is currently looking for a Pipeline TD to join our production team. This wonderful individual will not only help maintain our current pipeline, but assist in the planning, design and development of the pipeline to come. Yes, for the right person, you will have that power, if you are the motivated, self-starter we’re looking for. This is as much a creative position as it is a technical one. This position reports to our senior TD, head of CG as well as the head of engineering. Our company is a family. Come join our family. email resumes and contact info to techjobs@a52.com

Responsibilities and Duties

production needs:

  • maintain and update asset the asset management system
  • assist artists with scripting necessary to help make their work more efficient
  • create new tools to make production run smoothly and turn around efficiently,
    and at the high level of quality we push for every day
  • maintain and update our flame pipeline tools
  • be able to create and design UI for the tools you create

development needs:

  • maintain and update our web-based in-house production tracking system
  • manage the database and server of aforementioned production tracking system
  • conceive and design new extensions for said system and whatever future needs come of it
  • use your knowledge of video, image and audio formats to help with both in-house and
    commercial transcoding tools
  • be able to analyse the various workflows around you, find the bottlenecks and help
    develop systems to alleviate those bottlenecks.

Qualifications

  • under grad or better with Computer Science degree preferred
  • at least three years of development experience, preferably in a production environment
  • a firm grasp of python, MEL, SQL, Qt and HTML/javascript and mercurial are required
  • a decent knowledge of C++ is a plus
  • experience working with the following frameworks: pyramid, sqlalchemy, jquery, quicktime,
    django, and opengl
  • experience with the following tools: deadline, virtualenv, apache, postgresql, sqlalchemy,
    migrate, celery, mercurial, supervisor, alembic and compilers
  • a solid grasp of web application dev, database design, linux server admin, maya/3d software,
    qt ui design, video/image/audio formats/compression and networking
  • lots of experience writing scripts (and plugins a plus) for Maya, Massive, Nuke as well as Flame
  • must be a problem solver, with the fortitude to bring new ideas and solutions to the table
  • excellent communication skills