Skydance

3D Artist

• Responsible for helping assigned departments to solve basic technical issues
• Fixes the issues in the assigned scenes
• Helps artists to solve simple bugs
• Reviews pending tickets
• Assists artists when issues arise in the day-to-day processes of the department
• Tests libraries such as Houdini's HDAs and prototypes
• Updates basic documentation
• Reviews and updates the technical documentation related to the workflows and tools of the department that they support
• Is responsible for asset assemblies and updates
• Attends technical meetings to as requested
• Keeps up on current artistic methodologies and on technology trends and tools
• Is willing to learn new workflows and proactively contribute to making them more efficient
• Assists other team members when necessary
• Follows the department supervisor and leads’ instruction
• Has the ability to multi-task, collaborate with TDs or TAs

Technical Artist

QA Engineer

• Plan, develop, and oversee the execution of project test plans across one or more titles, ensuring work lands on time and at the quality bar the studio sets. This includes authoring and maintaining test plans for partners to execute, collaborating with those partners on scope and expectations, reporting progress, and ensuring deliverables meet studio standards. You'll also help onboard new partner team members to studio policies and processes, and develop your own team through training, feedback, and hands-on coaching.
• Partner with development to provide testing support and feedback across gameplay systems, content, and game balance. You'll build and execute test strategies in lockstep with the engineering & production leadership and represent QA in cross-discipline meetings to ensure testing priorities track with project development priorities.
• Bring an engineering mindset to the QA function. Identify where automation, tooling, or better instrumentation can replace repetitive manual effort. Work with engineering to integrate tests into CI, improve build verification, and shorten feedback loops. Maintain and improve the bug database, ensure issues are well-formed and actionable, and surface major or blocking issues to development immediately.
• Explore how AI tooling can extend the QA practice — test case generation, log triage, crash clustering, automated repro, smarter bug deduplication, AI-assisted exploratory testing. You'll be expected to evaluate tools critically, prototype where it makes sense, and bring the rest of the team along.
• Own the operational backbone of QA: 1st party certification coordination with Production and Development, clear and concise status reporting, and proactive prioritization based on where the project actually is.

QA Lead

System Administrator

• The Systems Administrator is responsible for the deployment and maintenance of the company’s infrastructure services, systems, and network
• Installing, configuring, and managing servers and services both cloud and on-premises
• Installing and evaluating new software releases, system upgrades, and patches
• Maintaining and monitoring system configuration to ensure data and configuration integrity
• Operating with the objective of having a reliable, efficient, and scalable infrastructure using configuration as code methodologies
• Collaborating across departments to evolve systems standards studio-wide
• Collaborating with the InfoSec team on the vulnerability management
• Performing system backups and recovery
• Documenting and automating daily tasks
• Participating in large system and subsystem planning
• 3rd level of support functions, including problem isolation and resolution
• Keeping up on current methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company

Mid Systems Administrator

• Fix the issues in the assigned scenes.
• Help artists to solve simple bugs.
• Review Pending Tickets.
• Assist artists when issues arise in the day-to-day processes of the department – eg. Creating work scenes, publishing work, preparing renders for dailies, etc.
• Test libraries such as Houdini's HDAs and prototypes.
• Updating basic documentation. Review and update the technical documentation related to the workflows and tools of the department that they support.
• Be responsible for Asset assemblies and updates.
• Attend technical meetings to as requested, to keep trained and updated in the new studio/department tools, pipelines, workflows, etc.
• Keeps up on current artistic methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company in the development of a stronger creative and technical environment.
• Assists other team members, when necessary.
• Follows the department supervisor and leads’ instruction.

Junior Technical Artist – Crowds

Accountant

• Manage all financial aspects of production accounting including budgeting, cash flows, cost tracking, variance analysis, forecasting estimated final cost (EFC), production quota and productivity reporting, as well as monthly reconciliation to the corporate ledger
• Partner with the Production leadership to create and manage production schedules and budgets that deliver films on budget
• Provide and present clear, accurate and timely production planning scenarios and analysis to both Production and Studio Management during the life cycle of a film
• Understand and aid in solving budgeting and staffing issues
• Collaborate with show leadership to measure production health against quotas, milestones, complexity goals and budget, and create executive summaries that headline those measurements
• Collaborate with the SAM (Skydance Animation Madrid) Finance team to manage all cost/EFC reporting to include both costs and crew weeks
• Adapt to changing scenarios, anticipate problems and recommend solutions to show leadership, while maintaining studio objectives
• Clearly and concisely communicate issues and collaborate with Production leadership to problem solve using active listening and knowledge of the animation production process
• Provide accurate, detailed and timely cost reports, cash flow and headcount forecasts, Staffing Profiles, and Smart Accounting/Trial Balance reconciliations
• Comply with all studio procedures for POs, invoices, checks and timecard approvals
• Collaborate with Production Finance team to establish best practices, maintain consistency across shows and provide maximum efficiency
• Liaise with studio Human Resources and Recruiting team to identify proper hiring needs and practices
• Direct and approve all staffing documents including terminations, dismissal pay, vacation payout, and bill backs in a timely manner
• Direct Assistant Production Accountant on all aspects of their job to ensure Studio compliance, accuracy, and timely processing of all payments
• Mentor and train Assistant Production Accountant to ensure strong work performance

Production Accountant

Designer

• Design and develop the visual style for all costumes on a film by understanding the Director’s overall vision for the story, character development, and visual tone
• Partner with other art leadership (Production Designers, Art Directors, and Lead Character Designers) to ensure world, characters, and costumes are cohesive and elevate overall storytelling
• Drive costume research in support of the films vision and provide findings to the broader team
• Visually explore research by pitching, iterating, adapting, and designing
• Create multiple iterations of each main character’s costume from rough pass to final design and use these iterations to later inform all other costumes from secondary, tertiary, and crowds
• Provide and share expertise on clothing styles, fabrics, fabrication techniques, and patterns to align with the narratives, character, and show designs
• Art Direct asset building teams to fulfil costume pipeline
• Oversee Costume Design Assistants; distribute assignments, make corrections, give notes, track delivery dates and production deadlines, and overall be a teacher and mentor
• Teach Costume Design Assistants and Visual Development Artists how to prepare detailed costume packets for downstream CG departments by instilling clarity on required information such as pattern cuttings, fabric swatches, draping, texture, color, silhouette, and pattern design
• Champion a positive, collaborative, and inclusive team culture within the larger Production and Art team that promotes professionalism, creativity, and continuous improvement
• Creative problem solving
• Involvement in hiring and mentoring of costume design crew

Costume Designer

Producer

• Manage calendar of the Directors and Producer, assist in navigation of daily schedule, needs, and identify priorities
• Maintain consistent awareness of production timeline, statuses, deadlines
• Coordinate meetings and communicate priorities with team members, studio, and external contacts
• Arrange physical and/or virtual conference details, issue meeting invitations, coordinate agendas and materials
• Maintenance of databases and spreadsheet tracking, filing, assembly of presentation materials
• Screen and respond to incoming calls and correspondence
• Attend meetings and note-take, timely distribution to appropriate parties following
• Research tasks and assembly of materials as needed
• Timely collection and distribution of crew timesheets to production finance
• Track and submit invoices and expense reports
• Arrange detailed travel plans and itineraries, compile travel documentation
• Note taking as needed
• Other ad hoc duties as needed

Assistant to Producer, Director

Engineer

• Architect, refactor and maintain rendering pipelines and features
• Design, write, debug and refine rendering systems, features, tools and infrastructure as needed
• Work with the technical art team to develop specifications and new graphics features
• Optimize graphics and effects to maximize performance and efficiency on CPU and GPU.
• Optimize systems for performance across a wide range of devices, from mobile to PC to High-end consoles

Senior Rendering Engineer

Security Analyst

• Develop a security plan for best standards and practices for the company.
• Create and manage process to perform risk reviews of requested software licenses.
• Maintain close coordination with infrastructure team to ensure we are achieving our security goals.
• Install and maintain software created to protect sensitive information such as data encryption and firewalls.
• Provide guidance and best practices around the use of generative AI tools from a security standpoint.