Pipeline Developer, Houdini

As a Houdini Pipeline Developer, you will offer our team deep insight into how to build a Houdini pipeline that spans lookdev, lighting, CFX, and FX, using USD and Solaris as a backbone. You will leverage your extensive production experience to create intuitive and self-documenting workflows that can be quickly adopted by users of differing skill levels, and which can operate efficiently on scenes of extreme scale and complexity. 

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, build and solve complex, systematic problems in the domain of Houdini pipeline workflows for lookdev, lighting, CFX, and FX departments
• Gather requirements across large collaboration efforts that span multiple departments and/or disciplines
• Write technical briefs and user documentation
• Partner with software development leadership and pipeline team to identify and schedule tasks

Minimum Qualifications

• At least five (5) years of experience writing Houdini pipeline code using Python
• Experience writing a Houdini pipeline using USD/ Solaris
• Demonstrated talent for designing intuitive, artist-friendly workflows without sacrificing functionality

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of object-oriented design and how to integrate Houdini into a large and complex pipeline
• Passion for staying on top of latest features in Houdini
• Strong communicator

$110,000 - $160,000 a year

This salary range is specific to applicants applying to our position in Los Angeles, United States. To determine your base salary, we consider your qualifications, skills, and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary outside of this range and will also be dependent on your location

Scanline VFX is an award-winning leader in the visual effects industry with 7 studios worldwide, including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. Since our beginning in 1989, we strive to set the highest standard of quality in everything we do. Through innovation, we generate solutions for our clients and raise the bar - both within our workplace and throughout our industry.

We look for explorers, people who are willing to go to new places and are open to testing, learning and iterating as they go. We believe great ideas come from everyone, so we actively encourage team members to ask questions and present their ideas.

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Netflix's investment in our pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows us to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in visual effects. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, we continue to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients.