El Ranchito is a VFX company with in Madrid, Spain. Over the years we have worked on several films, tv series and commercials, including Game of Thrones, Lost in Space and A Monsters Call.
We are looking for a Senior Pipeline Engineer for our R&D department in Madrid. The ideal candidate has previously worked in a VFX or Animation environment, having strong analytic and programming skills.
Tasks
- Work with the supervisors from different departments and the production TD to identify the requirements and design pipeline solutions to implement our workflow
- Work with the Head of R&D to identify priorities and schedule the development work
- Document workflow, pipeline and conventions both technically (internal R&D documentation) and practically (for artists use)
- Work with production, supervisors and production TD to define the roll-out strategy of new features across different shows
- Mentor junior and mid developers about pipeline engineering
- Manage development projects in collaboration with other developers
Requirements
- Bachelor degree in Engineering (or equivalent) or proven experience in a similar position
- At least 5 years of experience in the Visual Effects or Animation industry
- Excellent communication skills
- Good knowledge of Maya, Nuke and Houdini
- Proven experience in developing complex projects with Python
- Experience in designing and developing tools for artists
- Experience with Deadline
- Experience with VRay and Alembic
- Experience with developing automation scripts for Shotgun
- Experience with PySide, OpenMaya, Nuke Python API and Houdini Python API
- Experience with source control systems (GIT, SVN, etc.)
- Ability to supervise the work of other developers
- Experience with agile development (scrum)
- You would be a star if you also had experience with:
- VEX
- MEL
- MYSQL
- Master in Engineering
- C++
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