Netflix

Technical Director – Inkubator

Netflix

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $63 per hour

Job Level

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Work on productions alongside artists to support show-specific workflow and technical needs.
  • Strategize with artists to develop workflows that meet a particular show’s creative requirements.
  • Provide hybrid workflow solutions that integrate established 3D workflows and DCCs where emerging tools fall short of meeting creative requirements.
  • Provide critical workflow and tool support to artists.
  • Document and regularly update onboarding and training materials for artists.
  • Provide beta test feedback to the engineering org for new internal infrastructure or integration tooling.
  • Provide testing feedback to artists and craft experts on new releases of external tooling.
  • Ensure a stable and current production software environment for the artists.
  • Working with artist and craft experts, identify model fine-tuning opportunities and data requirements.
  • Create custom fine-tuning for a show utilizing internal and external tooling.
  • Proactively monitor artist pain points in daily reviews or dailies and iterate on tools and processes to remove friction.
  • Support and troubleshoot the handoff of data between artists and editorial.
  • Support the use of Production Tracking systems on a show and ensure it meets the particular needs of a show.
  • Evaluate and document the impact of new external tool releases on existing workflows, and communicate recommended adoption plans to artists and leads.
  • Identify standardization opportunities for engineering and encourage adoption in a particular show.
  • Monitor performance and reliability of compute resources during production and flag or mitigate bottlenecks impacting artist productivity.
  • In collaboration with studio engineering and Netflix infrastructure teams, help identify a show’s distributed compute and workstation requirements.
  • As needed, develop, deploy, and support last-mile software integration solutions for artists on a particular show.
  • As needed, create and deliver final material for a production.

Requirements

  • Working knowledge of both commercial and open source generative and traditional CG tools and workflows (eg ComfyUI)
  • Demonstrated ability to stay current with the highly dynamic and changing landscape of tools
  • Ability to synthesize creative requirements from artists and craft experts into practical workflows using both emerging and established tools
  • Familiarity with modern and emerging software development technologies and the ability to rapidly prototype and deploy solutions that meet a show’s requirements
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate evolving technical concepts to both artist and production leadership
  • Expertise in maintaining artist working environments that balance rapid deployment of new tools and security requirements.
Benefits
  • medical/dental/vision plans
  • mental health support
  • retirement programs
  • family-forming benefits
  • paid leave of absence programs
  • paid time away programs to be used for vacation and sick paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
3D workflowsDCCsworkflow solutionsfine-tuningsoftware integrationprototypingtool supportproduction software environmentdata requirementsperformance monitoring
Soft Skills
communication skillscollaborationproblem-solvingcreativityadaptabilitydocumentationfeedback provisiontrainingstrategizingmonitoring