Tau Films is looking for a Pipeline Supervisor to oversee the smooth running of their VFX or Feature Animation pipeline, and undertake any pipeline development tasks required. To collaborate with senior technology and production leadership to support and enhance our global pipeline. He/She will be responsible for designing technical solutions to the specific and general needs of those shows in collaboration with global supervisors, senior production staff and lead developers in R&D. The Pipeline Supervisor does this in conjunction with the leadership & management of the Technology Department.

Experience & Essential Skills Expected

• 3+ years of experience as a Senior or Lead Pipeline TD

• Minimum 5 years experience in film industry, ideally with previous experience in post-production, VFX, and CG

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Engineering, or equivalent

• Proven experience at a supervisory level in the visual effects industry would be an advantage

• Experience in developing tools for DCC packages such as Maya, Houdini and/or Nuke

• Experience with source control systems and team development

• Experience with renderers such as Arnold and/or Redshift

• Production experience with Maya, Katana, Houdini and/or Nuke, familiarity with relevant APIs

• Prior experience working with and developing on Shotgrid or other Production & Asset Management Systems

• Prior development experience with Python and PyQt in a production environment

• Comprehensive working knowledge of multiple 2D and 3D software packages

• Experience managing software, pipeline, and/or technology teams

• Ability to establish priorities, multi-task efficiently, and work with diverse personalities and all levels of creative and technical staff

• Experience planning large projects and forecasting show needs would be a plus

• Good understanding of Visual Effects or Animation pipelines would be a plus

Key Responsibilities

• Leads a team of Department TDs and Pipeline Developers responsible for deploying, configuring, and supporting the existing Pipeline

• Helps drive the design, implementation, and evolution of a standardized Pipeline for TV and Film Visual Effects Production

• Manage and contribute to their on-show development of tools and workflows, ensuring that all development efforts meet the needs of the show while also contributing to the overall pipeline

• Be a supervising presence for junior members of the Pipeline team, including our Pipeline TDs, ATDs and Interns who will look to you to provide coaching, guidance and mentoring

• Direct development resources to build software systems and tools to support production

• Works with the other senior Supervisors and Technical Leads to ensure that the Pipeline meets the needs of the studio at large and diverges as little as possible while still meeting the needs of the individual projects

• Works with Production and Technology Management to ensure adequate support coverage to meet the demands of all active projects

• Acts as an escalation point for Supervisors and Production Management to resolve pipeline and work-flow issues

• Actively participates in the recruiting and staffing of the team as and when needed - assesses and shortlist the prospective candidates and works closely with the hiring manager

• Lead in creating user-friendly documentation and tutorials for new tools and workflows.

• Confirm that pipeline projects match required standards of functionality, documentation and communication

• Address the needs of a multi-location, global workflow and dialogue with staff in different locations and time zones

Additional Skills

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• Good collaboration, organizational, problem solving, and project management skills

• Strong leadership qualities with proven ability and experience supervising teams with the ability to effectively delegate and mentor

We are looking to expand our development team spread across Malaysia and Hyderabad studio. During the current period of Covid related lockdown, this will start as a remote position, but transition to onsite when the office reopens in respective countries. If you are interested in an opportunity, read on.

What you can look forward to:

• A platform to learn and share your skills(not just coding skills) with the rest of the team and the organization.

• Opportunity to explore a polyglot Tech Stack.

• Code to your heart’s content while you work alongside some of the top creative minds in the industry

• You are in total control of your growth in our organization.

Coming to the Tech Stack, we mostly code in Python as most content creation applications we use in our industry have a matured Python API and Python just fits our need for rapid prototyping. We also have web apps and services that our end-users interact with, on a daily basis.

If everything sounds good so far, here is what an ideal candidate would sound like

• A strong foundation in computer science.

• Passionate about coding and love to solve problems

• You love collaborating with other developers on evaluating your ideas and implementing them.

• You have some amount of cross-platform development experience.

• You have some experience with relational databases.

We use the following Developer Tools/SaaS/PaaS offerings:

• Pycharm/VS Code

• Bitbucket

• Jira

• Confluence

• Miro

• AWS

• Slack

• Shotgrid

We are a distributed studio with locations across different time zones, so you would be required to collaborate with other developers from a different site as well as help out our remote artists who might be working from a studio location different than yours.

We are looking to expand our development team spread across Malaysia and Hyderabad studio. During the current period of Covid related lockdown, this will start as a remote position, but transition to onsite when the office reopens in respective countries. If you are interested in an opportunity, read on.

What you can look forward to:

• A platform to learn and share your skills(not just coding skills) with the rest of the team and the organization.

• Opportunity to explore a polyglot Tech Stack.

• Code to your heart’s content while you work alongside some of the top creative minds in the industry

• You are in total control of your growth in our organization.

You will:

• Be an active participant in shaping Tau Films’ future pipeline.

• Analyze and document what you have learned for others who walk the path after you.

• Coming to the Tech Stack, we mostly code in Python as most content creation applications we use in our industry have a matured Python API and Python just fits our need for rapid prototyping. We also have web apps and services that our end-users interact with, on a daily basis.

If everything sounds good so far, here is what an ideal candidate would need to possess

• Minimum 4+ years of experience.

• A strong foundation in computer science.

• Passionate about coding and love to solve problems

• You love collaborating with other developers on evaluating your ideas and implementing them.

• You have some amount of cross-platform development experience.

• You have some experience with relational databases.

• An ability to differentiate between a good and bad design with your reasoning to back it up.

• Strong communication skills with a team centric approach to discussion and decision making.

We use the following Developer Tools/SaaS/PaaS offerings:

• Pycharm/VS Code

• Bitbucket

• Jira

• Confluence

• Miro

• AWS

• Slack

• Shotgrid

We are a distributed studio with locations across different time zones, so you would be required to collaborate with other developers from a different site as well as help out our remote artists who might be working from a studio location different than yours.

We are looking to expand our development team spread across Malaysia and Hyderabad studio. During the current period of Covid related lockdown, this will start as a remote position, but transition to onsite when the office reopens in respective countries. If you are interested in an opportunity, read on.

• Previous experience in Lighting and Rendering for advertising, feature film or animation production

• Minimum 2+ years experience as a lighter

• Experience using Maya, Nuke, Arnold and or Redshift

• Solid understanding of the VFX lighting production pipeline

• Good communication skills and teamwork spirit

• Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems independently

• Must have the ability to precomp shots

• Hands on knowledge in lookdev and comp will be a huge plus

We are currently looking for a talented and experienced Senior Lighter with experience working in the Film & Entertainment industry to join our creative team. We need a versatile and innovative artist motivated to grow with the team. To be able to work with teams and talented digital artists across the globe sharing knowledge & delivering international levels of quality. Note - Covid 19 pandemic has made it necessary for Tau Films(all locations) to shift our operations entirely to remote work platforms for the time being.

Experience & Essential Skills Expected

• A minimum of 5 years of previous experience in Lighting and Rendering CG for advertising, feature film or animation production.

• Experience using Maya with Arnold/Redshift.

• Solid understanding of the VFX lighting production pipeline

• Ability to troubleshoot and solve problems independently

• Must be able to precomp shots

• Hands on knowledge in lookdev and comp will be a plus

• Knowledge of photography & color theory.

• Knowledge in scripting and writing tools will be a huge plus

• Working knowledge of unreal engine will be of advantage

• Good communication skills (both written, verbal) to enable you to work well with international teams

Key Responsibilities

• Lighting and rendering photo-real and stylized CG for advertising and digital projects

• Work closely with department supervisors to create various methodologies to achieve the technical and aesthetics milestones for projects.

• Cross train and contribute to other departments during downtime

• Working closely with other CG/VFX Artists, across multiple locations to deliver the highest quality work

• Help delivering projects of varying visual style, photo -real or non-photo-realistic looks

• Mentor the junior artists, new hires in the team with knowledge sharing sessions done periodically