Pipeline Support TD

PXO creates industry-leading Virtual Production and Visual Effects for premium Film and Episodic content. With over 20 industry awards and nominations, PXO, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company, is a trusted partner for storytellers and showrunners worldwide. The company has been creating iconic work since 2001, from Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning Hugo and HBO’s Emmy winning Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, through to Amazon’s The Boys, Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and many more.  

In Virtual Production, PXO helps clients to realize their creative vision, from production through to post-production. Using interactive technology and proprietary software and solutions, PXO brings ideas to life by virtually immersing filmmakers in the worlds they imagined, throughout every stage of the creative process. The company’s latest LED volume work includes House of the Dragon, Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Netflix’s upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender.  

PXO has seven studios and three LED volumes in the US, UK, Germany and Canada.  

Responsibilities

• Provide day to day pipeline support to shows across 3D and 2D related tools.
• Maintain show based tools along with creating smaller features.
• Resolve technical problems for productions with department leads and supervisors.
• Act as the liaison between production/artists and pipeline based on projects.
• Do code reviews and give productive feedback to team members.
• Follow studio standards for version control, documentation, and testing.
• Submit your own code for code reviews.

Requirements

• 2+ years of expierence as a TD within the VFX, or Animation industry
• Experience with using Python, Mel and TCL in a produciton environment.
• Experience with Windows and Linux.
• Solid understanding and production experience with Maya, Houdini, Nuke, and ShotGrid.
• Strong understanding of colorspaces and OCIO .
• Strong grasp of asset and shot workflows across departments.
• Familiarity with git / svn and collaborative workflows (code review, standards, etc.)

Desirable

• UI development using PySide / PyQt4.
• Experience building VFX C/C++ libraries and dependencies on Windows.
• Experience with Regular Expressions.
• Familiarity with USD and modern scene description paradigms.
• A generalist mindset with the ability to troubleshoot across both 3D and 2D pipelines.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast paced production environment and enjoys being the technical glue that helps artists do their best work.

Benefits

Individual salaries within this range will be dependent upon skills, experience, and qualifications. Benefits may vary by location due to regional regulations and company policies.

Pixomondo is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.

PXO does not accept resumes from recruiters. Unsolicited resumes are accepted directly from candidates only. PXO will not pay any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.