Studio: Laika
Job Opening: Lighting Pipeline TD
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon, US
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Extend the capabilities of Katana through custom scripts and plugins, collaborating with show and facility leadership to target high value projects, addressing the needs of Lighting and Look Development artists.
- Extend the capabilities of Mari and Substance Painter, addressing the needs of Look Development artists.
- Collaborate with the Production Technology Team to integrate Lighting and Lookdev products into our Asset Management system for the core Lighting and Lookdev DCCs, including Katana, Mari, and Substance Painter.
- Work with non-technical end users to help define requirements for novel tools and develop prototypes for systems that solve production problems.
- Collaborate with other Pipeline TDs and Engineers to evolve the Core Pipeline, incorporating technological advances and addressing the evolving requirements of a growing facility.
- Follow the processes and procedures of the software development life cycle, build and release system, documentation and testing standards used in Production Technology.
- Assist with the support of existing tools via bug fixes and version updates.
- Support users on Linux with Lighting and Lookdev related problems.
- Support applications through documentation, training, and handling questions.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 4+ years of experience developing custom Lighting and Lookdev tools and workflows within an animation or VFX studio environment.
- Expertise developing with Python, including familiarity with best practices, the Python core library, and industry standard libraries such as PySide.
- Experience with Katana and its various apis, and Plug-in System.
- Experience with USD and the suite of USD apis.
- Experience with one or more production grade renderers, such as Renderman.
- Experience with Mari and / or Substance Painter a plus.
- Experience with additional DCCs such as Houdini, Maya, and / or Nuke a plus.
- Experience with SCM tools such as Git and GitLab.
