Production Operations Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking to appoint a mid-level developer or technical artist for our Production Operations Engineering (ProdOps) department in MONTREAL. It is the responsibility of the ProdOps Engineers to create, configure, and maintain the 2D visual effects production pipelines for each of our movie projects. A successful candidate will have previous visual effects (or related) experience, familiarity with image processing and colour management, good development skills and python experience, excellent trouble-shooting and communication skills, and a strong attention to detail. This role supports our show production, editorial and imaging science departments.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Job setup, production pipeline configuration and support
• Ingestion (importing client materials shot on set, such as camera footage and all associated data files)
• Image/colour manipulation and reformatting
• masking, text burn-ins, information slate generation
• Quicktime generation
• file naming and organisation
• Testing, ensuring quality control of all configuration and images produced
• Troubleshooting operational issues, liaising with Software and Render support
• Production tools development; film project support scripting
• Identifying changing requirements, recommending solutions
• Technical documentation

Qualifications
• Technical VFX Degree or a Certificate or Degree in Computer Science or EngineeringUnderstanding of video encoding and image processingStrong skill in Python, or other scripting languagesExperience in a technical customer support role
• Knowledge of compositing
• Nuke (or similar) scripting and tool development
• Understanding of basic colour science (colour spaces, LUTs)
• Proficient in the use of Linux command line
• 2D/Compositing experience an asset

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rov93g-3-19-31-73-42 in your application.