
Technical Director – Inkubator
Netflix
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United 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