A52/Elastic is a commercial house with fast turnarounds. The solutions developed here have to be flexible, as does the person leading the design and implementation of these tools. This position is for someone creative & technical, who is looking ahead to where things in post-production and software will be down the road, and is excited to shape that future for A52/Elastic as we move forward.
You read the blogs, the mailing lists, attend SIGGRAPH for more than just the parties, and have a relationship with some or all of your vendors (Autodesk, Chaos Group, Massive, Side Effects, Thinkbox, and the like).
At the end of the day, we are a very tight-knit team here, and we work hard to maintain this culture of work-family; working hard together and helping each other out to achieve the same goal of putting out fantastic work we are all very proud to be a part of. We are the sum of all of our parts.
Interested candidates please email resume and linkedIn link to: techjobs@a52.com
Responsibilities:
-working with department leads to discover their immediate needs
-assessing the long-term needs of departments, including your own
-mentor other TDs
-prioritize the tasks at hand and delegate them accordingly
-stay in touch with the latest in technology, ready to add new methods to pipeline as well as introduce new -technology to department leads as you see fit
-design and document the roadmap of current and future development
-the ability to accept when someone else has a better idea
-work with artists, other developers and IT to test and debug new hardware and software solutions
-enforce and maintain code documentation
-help educate artists by implementing and maintain an artist help wiki
-maintain and improve the development environment of your developers through version control, code review and staging
-maintain and improve a help desk system for help requests
Qualifications:
-Must be a problem solver with good temperament and excellent communication skills
-BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
-3+ years designing and developing pipeline
-5+ years in visual effects and post production
-A very strong knowledge of python and supporting libraries such as SQLAlchemy
-Experience with database systems, PostgreSQL and MongoDB prefered
-Experience with Maya, Houdini, Massive, 3DS Max, Mari, Nuke, Deadline and technologies such as alembic and ACES -color pipeline
-Experience working with a production tool such as Shotgun, NIM or FTrack
-Windows OS and OSX knowledge
-Experience with version control and code review systems
-knowledge of web frameworks like Pyramid a plus
-knowledge of C/C++ a plus