Job Posting Title:

Pipeline Technical Director II

Req ID:

10149258

Job Description:

Position Summary

The Pipeline TD II develops and maintains software tools, providing front-line assistance to artists, and general troubleshooting of the CG pipeline in a fast-paced, feature film visual effects production environment. The primary focus is ensuring artist efficiency.

What You’ll Do

- Develop pipeline and asset management tools to meet immediate, show-directed production demands, ensuring facility-wide consistency as directed by show and technical supervisors

- Help maintain a wide array of existing workflows and scripts

- Provide front-line production assistance across a wide range of disciplines, troubleshoot assets and shots, and help artists with general problem-solving. Monitor email requests, package up problems and redirect to appropriate engineering team

- Test and validate tools and techniques in production. Work closely with engineering teams in testing, and releasing recent and modified software systems

- Act as an on-call resource for show production staff, primarily for complex, urgent problems.

- Collaborate effectively with artists, production supervisors, and technical staff across ILM studios in San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, and London

- When not crewed to shows, serve on software teams working on projects that improve the efficiency of asset setup, caching, and shot-data handoff between artists across the entire pipeline

- Identify day-to- day priorities in conjunction with show supervisors; act autonomously

- Work primarily on tools of a high degree of complexity,



requiring a broad understanding of the larger pipeline

- Assist junior Pipeline TDs in providing front-line assistance; resolve complex user errors; guide Pipeline Engineers and R&D; with debugging technical issues

- Develop comprehensive knowledge of software and systems; contribute to evolving standards and conventions used in production

- Update documentation for the pipeline and tools to reflect any changes that are made

What We’re Looking For

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related technical field

- Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining tools for use in computer graphics

- At least 5 years production experience in visual effects for film, commercials or television

- Proficiency in Linux

- Advanced Python scripting required

- Experience in one or more of Maya, Nuke, Houdini, Mari, Katana, RenderMan or similar

- Ability to communicate cross-discipline and provide innovative solutions to pipeline issues

- Detail oriented and strong self-sufficient troubleshooter

- Thorough knowledge of the entire visual effects process, from shooting to modeling and texturing, animation, rendering and compositing

- Nice to have:

- Experience with production database systems

- Experience with C, C++

- Experience with Windows development and applications such as 3ds max

Job Posting Segment:

ILM Mumbai

Job Posting Primary Business:

ILM Mumbai

Primary Job Posting Category:

Art & Media Pipeline - Studios

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Mumbai, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-04-22

📌 Pipeline Technical Director II (Mumbai)
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📍 Mumbai