Hybrid Technical Director – Temp, SFD, Cinematics

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About the role

  • Technical Director supporting artists in the Cinematics team at Blizzard Entertainment. Developing tools, solving technical challenges, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring stories to life.

Responsibilities

  • Join our Cinematics team to support artists and their workflows
  • Build tools and solve technical challenges
  • Develop innovative technology to bring stories to life
  • Work closely with artists, producers, and technologists
  • Collaborate effectively to empower artists with cutting-edge tools

Requirements

  • Strong background in software development, with experience in developing, modifying, deploying, and debugging software on Linux and Windows environments
  • Experience writing tools or plugins for widely used third-party computer graphics programs
  • Solid understanding of computer graphics (CG) pipelines and workflows
  • Experience with third-party computer graphics programs such as Maya, Houdini, or Katana
  • Proficiency in Python and object-oriented programming
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for cross-departmental interactions
  • Genuine interest in a technical support capacity, assisting artists and team members
  • Ability to adapt to shifting priorities during production schedule changes
  • Experience developing tools using PyQt (extra points)
  • Understanding of computer graphics concepts such as raytracing and simulation (extra points)
  • Familiarity with common VFX platform libraries: openEXR, OpenVDB, Alembic, or USD (extra points)
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Engineering, or a related field (extra points)

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
  • 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
  • Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
  • Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
  • Relocation assistance

Job title

Technical Director – Temp, SFD, Cinematics

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$77,500 - $143,376 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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