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Founded in 1975 by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries.

The Senior Effects TD operates independently to generate FX animation, procedural simulation, dynamic simulation, particle and fluid systems for feature film visual effects. The Senior Effects TD also completes lighting, rendering and moderate-level compositing of complex shots with guidance from their supervisors.

Responsibilities:
- Design and create FX animation, procedural simulation, dynamic simulation, particle and fluid systems
- Light complex/multiple elements; communicates status of shots to supervisors and Production
- Provide accurate time estimates for shotwork
- Hand off elements to other departments i.e. comp and rendering teams
- Present shot work in dailies; attend dailies and other department meetings
- Mentor junior effects artists
- Data management of shots including clean up
- Special projects as needed

Requirements:
- At least 5 years relevant professional VFX experience and at least a college level diploma in computer graphics, fine arts, design, or photography, or related field; OR at least 7 years relevant professional VFX experience in lieu of education
- Demonstrates an excellent aesthetic eye
- Exhibits strong teamwork and interdisciplinary thinking
- Production pipeline experience
- Strong communication and follow-through
- Ability to work under pressure and deadlines
- Experience with either Maya, 3DS Max, Houdini, or similar software
- Basic understanding of the physics of simulation
- Linux and scripting ability in Python
- Advanced simulation experience with either Houdini, Maya, 3DS Max or other software, and the ability to write expressions

At Lucasfilm/ILM we believe that diversity, inclusion and belonging are integral to our company. We are at our best when our people at all levels reflect the vast life experiences of our audiences, and we thrive when ideas and decisions from all are valued and represented. If you are passionate about the role, but don't fit every criteria of the posting, we encourage you to still apply. We want to hear your story.

Senior Effects Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic in Sydney, Australia. Create FX animation and simulations for feature film visual effects.

Senior Effects Technical Director

We are looking for an extraordinary teammate to join our Creature team. As a Creature TD Lead, you will be responsible for the creation of outstanding character and creature rigs and simulations, using various software technologies. Our Leads are experienced in leading/mentoring teams, and they understand all aspects of Creature TD work in a production pipeline. They are able to wrangle rigging and creature pipeline issues proficiently under the direction and support of their supervisors.

At ILM, a good idea is a good idea, regardless of where it comes from! Do you thrive in a creative environment? Do you enjoy sharing knowledge and learning from others? If you love art, technology, and movies, then this might be the role you're looking for!

ILM strives to be an inclusive environment, and the Creature team embraces promising individuals with a variety backgrounds and experiences.

What You'll Do:
- Advanced hero-creature rigging and enveloping in Maya
- Set up and run cloth, hair, rigid body, crowd, muscle simulations
- Comprehend and implement direction from Creature Supervisor
- Oversee the work of entry, mid and senior level Creature TDs and provide day-to-day assistance and guidance
- Participate as a team member in achieving various aesthetic solutions
- Train and mentor new artists and provide technical assistance to show supervisors
- Maintain or exceed a consistent level of productivity while meeting deadlines and producing high quality work

What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years relevant professional experience and a BA in computer graphics, fine arts, design, or photography, or related field
- High proficiency in body/facial rigging and cloth/hair/flesh/rigid body simulations
- Deep understanding of anatomy and muscle dynamics
- Experience with proprietary simulation engines and off the shelf software packages (Maya/Houdini)
- Proficiency with Linux, Python, Maya
- Positive demeanor and excellent teamwork and communication skills
- Ability to learn quickly and assimilate new information

The hiring range for this position in Vancouver is C$122,400 to C$156,800 per year based on a 40-hour work week. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other variable pay or benefits may be offered dependent on the level and position offered.

Lead Creature Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic, creating outstanding character and creature rigs and simulations for visual effects in movies.

Lead Creature Technical Director

We are looking for an outstanding artist to join our Creature team. As a Senior Creature Technical Director (TD), you will be responsible for the creation of high quality character and creature rigs and simulations, using various software technologies. Senior Creature TDs at ILM are able troubleshoot complicated creature issues, collaborate with their peers and produce high quality work under the direction and support of their supervisors, and help mentor junior artists.

At ILM, we believe a good idea is a good idea, regardless of where it comes from! Do you thrive in a creative environment? Do you enjoy sharing knowledge and learning from others? If you love art, technology, and movies, then this might be the role you're looking for!

ILM strives to be an inclusive environment, and the Creature team embraces promising individuals with a variety backgrounds and experiences.

What You'll Do:
- Build high quality, hero creature rigging and skinning in Maya.
- Set up and run cloth, hair, rigid body, crowd, muscle simulations
- Troubleshoot creature rigging and pipeline issues for artists in other departments
- Mentor junior character artists and help them develop their skills
- Script utilities/tools/plug-ins in Maya
- Participate in reviews, dailies, and department meetings as needed
- Special projects as necessary

What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years meaningful professional experience and a Bachelor's degree in computer graphics, fine arts, design, or photography, or related field; or, an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience as Maya rigger for assets in digital animation, visual effects, games, or commercials
- Experience setting up and running a variety of simulation shotwork
- Knowledge of anatomy and enveloping
- Positive demeanour and a phenomenal teammate, with good interpersonal and communication skills
- Proficiency with Linux, Maya, and Houdini
- Experience with python scripting
- Ability to learn quickly and assimilate new information
- Nice to have: C++, basic proficiency in another subject area such as modelling, texture, lighting, or animation

The hiring range for this position in Vancouver is C$108,400 to C$138,800 per year based on a 40-hour work week. The amount of hours scheduled per week may vary based on business needs. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other variable pay or benefits, may be offered dependent on the level and position offered.

Senior Creature Technical Director at Industrial Light & Magic, responsible for high-quality character and creature rigs and simulations.

Senior Creature Technical Director

We are looking for a Senior Creature Technical Director who reflects the innovative spirit, creative talent, production excellence, collaborative mindset, and passion for great filmmaking that define ILM.

The Senior Creature Technical Director is responsible for rigging and skinning hero to background creatures, vehicles, and props in Maya as well as setting up and running muscle, hair, rigid, and cloth simulations. The Senior Creature Technical Director is able to wrangle rigging and creature pipeline issues proficiently under the direction and support of their supervisors.

What You'll Do:
- Advanced Hero-creature rigging and skinning in Maya
- Set up and run cloth, hair, rigid body, muscle simulations
- Troubleshoot creature rigging and pipeline issues for artists in other disciplines
- Mentor entry level artists
- Script utilities/tools/plug-ins in Maya
- Sufficient knowledge of Maya rigging techniques to optimize the performance of rigs
- Participate in reviews, dailies, and department meetings as required
- Special projects as necessary

What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years relevant professional experience and at least college level diploma in computer graphics, fine arts, design, or photography, or related field; OR, at least 7 years relevant professional VFX experience in lieu of education
- Experience with advanced hero asset rigging and skinning in Maya
- Experience setting up and running simulation shotwork
- Experience in corrective sculpting; knowledge of anatomy and skinning
- Positive attitude and team player
- Passion for the work
- Good communication skills
- Proficiency with Linux
- Expertise with Maya
- Knowledge of creature simulation in Houdini
- Experience with python scripting

Nice to have:
- Experience with Massive or Houdini crowd software
- C++
- Basic proficiency in another discipline - modeling, texture, TD, animation
- Experience with crowd simulations

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $113,300 to $148,700 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Senior Creature Technical Director for rigging, skinning, and simulations at Industrial Light & Magic in San Francisco.

Senior Creature Technical Director - Expression of Interest

Lucasfilm is looking for a seasoned full-stack Python developer to join a motivated and flexible production software team. The developers in Lucasfilm Information Systems (IS) build workflow-driven applications that allow our users to efficiently create movies, TV shows, magazines, books, and games. We're hiring humble experts to join a team of well-rounded developers that thrive in an informal environment, one in which managers are there to support the process and fill in the gaps, so that developers are free to do their jobs.

We support a broad range of users–from non-technical cast and crew, who just need tools to securely access scripts or other reference; to full-time digital asset managers, whose whole workday is spent performing complex administrative tasks in these same systems; to industry-leading artists and production staff, who need our tools to blend seamlessly into their specialized workflows.

We're currently onboarding new users into our digital asset management platform, and rewriting core production tracking and workflow tools for one of Lucasfilm's creative divisions. You'd be supporting growth in our user base by supporting new use cases in these tools, and helping leverage new technologies to support their continued improvement.

What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience:
  - Strong Python skillset, with demonstrated contributions to significant Python applications
  - Experience with Python web and API frameworks
  - Single page web app experience with modern JavaScript frameworks
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and client-facing skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, other technical degree, or equivalent

Nice to Have:
- Expertise in core technologies used by our team, including Vue, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Postgres, Redis, Solr, Celery, Aspera, Lambda, and Docker
- Familiarity supporting film/tv/print media/game production processes and culture
- Experience with Digital Asset Management and Production Workflow tools
- Experience with media: transcode, colorspace management, playback optimization
- Security orientation, and experience working with and protecting sensitive data
- Experience with async Python

About the IS team:
Our Lucasfilm Information Systems team values pride and earnestness, idealism and pragmatism, and focusing on the customer as much as the code. We have a "no arrogance" policy and want to hire awesome people to work in a great department. We value Scout Rule coding ("leave the code cleaner than you found it") and finding the right tool for the right job. We're at a company that has used Python for 25 years, so balancing legacy systems and future needs is a daily battle, but that is the nature of software—reading code is as important as writing it. We are continuously refining our processes, and encourage our developers to explore tools, techniques, and other sorts of meta-development to make themselves more productive.

You'll be part of a group that gets along well, whether it's tackling a technical issue, attending a company screening, or joining a zoom hangout on a Friday afternoon. The team is primarily 'hybrid,' based out of beautiful offices in Burbank and San Francisco, with a combination of in-person and remote work. This role is considered Hybrid, which means the employee will work onsite in our San Francisco office and occasionally from home.

We exist to support fast moving production companies, and you will work with the knowledge that whatever you write will immediately make the job easier for someone down the hall, at Skywalker Ranch, or at one of our studios or location shoots around the world.

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $149,000.00 to $199,800.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Lucasfilm is seeking a seasoned full-stack Python developer to join their production software team, building workflow-driven applications for movie, TV, and game production.

Sr Production Engineer

Founded in 1975 by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries. ILM has created visual effects for over 325 feature films and has played a key role in seven of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits of all time and has contributed to 25 of the top 50.

The Systems Engineer is responsible for designing and developing all aspects of the studio production infrastructure. They will be tasked with designing, developing and maintaining studio infrastructure used by all departments throughout the company, and to ensure smooth operation of our multi-site, award winning, visual effects company.

Primary Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
• Monitor and maintain infrastructure and standards for Windows/Linux Servers across the global organization.
• Support other Windows/Linux based services and applications, including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, printing infrastructure, Group Policies, DNS, DHCP, & SCCM in line with department standards.
• Drive automation around server management lifecycle, including automatic builds, patching and monitoring of servers. Documents all processes, procedures and operations for both internal needs and end users when required.
• Act as a point of escalation for problems transferred by IT Support Teams.
• Work with the security team to ensure that systems standards are managed and maintained in alignment with security best practices, including vulnerability management, encryption and antivirus.
• Liaise with other technical groups to ensure that Standards and Technology are in line with overall technical direction of Lucasfilm and its companies.
• Provide excellent customer support, while maintaining a highly technical environment.

Required Skills/Competencies:
• Proven experience automating and running large-scale software rollouts to Windows Servers / Workstations.
• Proven experience in building and maintaining virtual hosting environments for Windows/Linux based systems, including VMWare ESX.
• Proven experience in systems automation with Windows based scripting / languages, such as PowerShell, VBS or .Net.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise level storage solutions (NAS / SAN) and administration of CIFS.
• Hands-on experience with Isilon Onefs operating system.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft SQL, other database technologies a plus.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise level antivirus monitoring and prevention services.
• Demonstrated examples / proficiency in the use and administration of Linux & Mac operating systems.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, flexibility in concepts and action, able to handle aggressive mission critical deadlines.
• Excellent team player- proven ability to resolve problems professionally and systematically.
• Detailed oriented, highly organized self-starter, able to multi-task without supervision.
• Comprehensive system documentation skills.
• Strong customer service attitude and ability to work in a production environment requiring adaptation to ever-changing production challenges.
• Familiarity with the aspects of working in a creative environment.
• Must carry mobile devices during work and non-work hours and be available to be on-call when needed.
• Strong English communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of visual effects industries applications and installations.
• Hands-on experience in working in Data Center environments.

Benefits include health insurance & wellbeing, childcare options, paid time off, retirement programs, tuition assistance, and weekly pay.

Senior Systems Engineer role at Industrial Light & Magic, responsible for designing and maintaining studio production infrastructure for a leading visual effects company.

System Engineer

Industrial Light & Magic, founded in 1975 by George Lucas, has created some of the most iconic moments in motion picture history. From Star Wars to Jurassic Park, Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers, The Avengers, theme park rides and interactive experiences, ILM continues to expand the possibilities of what visual entertainment can be.

Industrial Light & Magic's Research and Development (R&D) group develops ground-breaking technology that empowers artists to create dazzling visuals. With 70+ visually-minded software engineers working alongside over a thousand digital artists, ILM operates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment across studios in San Francisco, Vancouver, London, Sydney, and Mumbai.

As a Senior R&D Engineer, you'll work on developing tools and production techniques across various areas of visual effects and feature animation production, including:

- Image processing, compositing, and rotoscoping
- Simulating natural phenomena, rigid-body destruction, crowds, and procedural animation
- Lighting, texturing, look-development, and layered material definition
- Modeling, rigging, and animation of bodies and faces
- Tools and pipeline systems for managing complex 3D scenes

You'll collaborate with engineers across all ILM studios, balancing long-term software development projects with day-to-day artist support and problem-solving. The role involves working with commercial software vendors to develop and deploy machine-learning-based tools.

Key requirements:
- Proficiency in C++ and Python on Linux
- Knowledge of visual effects principles
- Experience with machine learning techniques and toolsets
- Working knowledge of standard data formats (OpenEXR, OpenVDB, Alembic, USD)
- Enthusiasm for designing artist-friendly interfaces
- Appreciation of software development principles

The position offers a competitive salary range of C$122,400 to C$156,800 per year, along with comprehensive benefits including health insurance, paid time off, retirement programs, and tuition assistance.

This hybrid role requires working 2-3 days onsite at the Vancouver location.

Senior R&D Engineer position at Industrial Light & Magic, developing innovative visual effects tools and technologies.

Senior R&D Engineer - All Disciplines

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who reflects the innovative spirit, creative talent, production excellence, collaborative mindset and passion for great filmmaking that define Lucasfilm.

As a Senior Software Engineer for Information Systems (InfoSys) you will work on creative, robust cross platform applications that enable Lucasfilm, Lucasfilm Productions and its subdivisions to efficiently operate. The breadth of InfoSys applications ranges from deep integrations with 3rd party software to proprietary web applications built around Lucasfilm workflows. Developers build new applications, support and enhance existing systems, and integrate 3rd party applications into existing software infrastructure. You will interact with a wide range of clients from all aspects of the company, learn new workflows, and work on both simple and complex solutions to increase efficiency and productivity across all of Lucasfilm.

Our Lucasfilm Information Systems team values pride and earnestness, idealism and pragmatism, and focusing on the customer as much as the code. We have a "no arrogance" policy and want to hire awesome people to work in a great department. We love source control, testing and Linux. We value Scout Rule coding ("leave the code cleaner than you found it") and finding the right tool for the right job. We're at a company that has used Python for nearly 25 years, and balancing legacy systems and future needs is a daily battle, but that is the nature of software—reading code is as important as writing it.

You'll be part of a group that enjoys working together - whether it's tackling issues for our clients, debating the latest technical trends, or sharing favorite recipes, music and DIY projects. We exist to support our customers, and you will work with the knowledge that whatever you write will immediately make the job easier for someone at ILM, at Skywalker Ranch, or at one of our studios or location shoots around the world.

What You'll Do:
- Full stack development of robust applications
- Build and support complex integrations with key 3rd party platforms such as Zendesk, SpaceIQ, JIRA, GitLab
- Design and maintain healthy relational database schemas
- Work with management and other developers to implement elegant and user-friendly interfaces for all new modules and/or applications
- Create and deploy virtual machines
- Support multiple web and database servers to ensure constant availability, functionality, synchronization and security
- Develop, deploy, document and maintain code in keeping with IS guidelines
- Write UI and unit tests
- Bug fixes and enhancement requests for existing applications
- Monitor use of existing systems, and suggest strategies to improve health and reduce technical debt
- Maintain web infrastructure tools such as caching, analytics and authentication
- Participate in code reviews, test new concepts and technologies, suggest improvements in technical direction
- Build stand alone modules and smaller web applications for use by clients across the organization

This role is considered Hybrid, which means the employee will work 2-3 days onsite at a Company designated location and occasionally from home.

Senior Software Engineer position at Industrial Light & Magic, focusing on full-stack development and integration of cross-platform applications for Lucasfilm and its subsidiaries.

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