Systems Engineer
Company3
Santa Monica, CA
Company: Company 3
Position: Data I/O Lead
Location: Santa Monica, CA
*Pay Range: $30.00 - $37.50 USD hourly
As Lead Data I/O Technician you will be responsible for supporting the Manager, Data I/O and take a lead role in helping direct all work performed by the data technicians, helping to define best practices with respect to all data related tasks, communicating with production staff and advising on project workflows as needed.
MAIN DUTIES:
The Data I/O Lead will will act as the lead of the team of data technicians and help to enforce best practices, advise on new workflows and help to train new team members. They will assist in testing new workflows and tasks destined to be performed by technicians and coordinate with internal scheduling and production staff to make project storage assignments (for picture, sound and dailies). They will work with production staff in all other partner locations to facilitate project movement and be able to advise on client requirements as they relate to data hosting and transfer. Other duties include:
• Provide support for all departments and have a working understanding of each of their day-to-day operations and communicate with production staff to address workflow changes, client or internal.
• Address and iterate upon any workflows and systems, working with the Manager, Data I/O to liaise with engineering and production staff to accommodate client requirements.
• Manage and perform vendor on-boarding for various client platforms, occasionally on behalf of other production staff and occasionally participate in client facing troubleshooting, as they relate to data deliveries
WHAT YOU BRING:
The ideal candidate will bring previous experience in Linux operating systems and shell based tools. They will h ave a working knowledge of render software such as Colorfront OSD and Transkoder. They will have e xperience managing a team of 5, typically working asynchronously. They will b e familiar with ticketing systems such as JIRA, or other Agile style task tracking software. The ideal candidate will also bring the following:
• Color Science and image processing experience
• Production tools including DaVinci Resolve, AutoDesk Flame and Avid experience
• LTO and related archiving software experience
• Have high proficiency in Bash or equivalent Unix Shell
• Regularly exercises critical thought and creative problem solving
• Dailies experience
• Excellent ability to triage and delegate tasks to team
• Familiar with commonly used production cameras (ARRI, RED, Sony, etc..)
• Is constantly engaged in learning and testing new technologies
• Has a working knowledge of Python and integration with internal scripting tools
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjk250-3-94-202-151-42 in your application.
Company 3 / Method Studios provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more.