Virtual Production Technologist - Ucan

Job Description

As Netflix creates more and more programming around the world leveraging virtual production technology, we are scaling to support the needs of diverse creative teams, identify areas to innovate in, and continuing to foster industry-wide change.

About You

You are an expert in the technical practices and tools that support virtual production including plate capture, camera tracking & live compositing (Simulcam), and In-Camera VFX (LED/Projection), as well as the real-time virtual production techniques and pipelines that integrate on-set. You understand current workflows, techniques, stagecraft and tools, and how they're developing as technical and creative demands evolve. You have worked with directors, cinematographers, stage managers, VFX supervisors, developers, and engineers in supporting them in their exploration of these techniques and the execution of shots and sequences. You keep abreast of developing standards, industry trends, and solutions that are changing how we create imagery that is both fantastic and believable and integrates the photographed and virtual worlds. You have ideas and opinions about how to ensure high quality, creative flexibility, efficiency, and scalability in this domain.

Responsibilities
• Work with productions in technical planning and execution of content leveraging virtual production techniques. This includes providing input on component selection and configuration, and liaising with various service providers and vendors.
• Educate internal and external production partners on established and emerging techniques.
• Assess and triage production challenges, escalating issues where appropriate to domain experts.
• Participate in documentation, tutorials and other support resources to facilitate the education of technical creative partners and vendors about our requirements, best practices, and initiatives.
• Provide on-set troubleshooting and execution support of virtual production techniques.
• Evaluate vendors' technical readiness to deliver on a particular production plan.
• Observe and research emerging technologies and techniques for their applicability to our productions.
• Provide technical guidance to develop the best practices and standards that will guide virtual production for Netflix productions and internal teams.
• Represent the Netflix Creative Technologies group at industry functions, conferences, committee meetings to drive conversations and outcomes that are impactful to Netflix's virtual production goals.

Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications
• 4+ years of experience in the virtual production domain, for both features and series.
• Additional experience in the VFX domain.
• Plenty of experience with the production set environment; experience deploying virtual production workflows and environments a plus.
• Deep knowledge of the techniques and toolset.
• Knowledge of and relationships with technology solutions, equipment and service vendors in the domain.
• The communication skills to clearly articulate and document technical concepts and explain how they impact the creative process.
• A passion for the moving image, synthetically generated or not.
• Compulsive curiosity.
• Strong knowledge of workflows and craft, including asset creation, photogrammetry and environment capture, VR, real-time rendering.

What success looks like
• Introduce the virtual production toolset and related techniques to creative technicians unfamiliar with these new methodologies and drive adoption.
• Comfort with and successful execution of virtual production techniques by our creative partners.
• Improved quality and reliability of virtual production service offerings.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnmwe5-3-14-142-115-42 in your application.