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You enjoy building, packaging, and configuring complex software systems.
You are fluent across modern software development and ML tooling and like collaborating with engineers, researchers, and artists.
You care about efficiency, reliability, and clean engineering.
Deploy ML solutions and integrate AI tooling within the VFX pipeline with minimal burden on artists and production.
Design and build web front-end UIs (dashboards, curation tools, job control, review) that make ML/automation workflows intuitive and accessible.
Collaborate with global stakeholders and architects to implement cost-effective data and MLOps pipelines; document methodologies.
Build, package, and configure complex software systems across Linux.
Improve efficiency, stability, and observability through profiling, metrics, and tracing.
Validate work with methodical testing (unit/integration/e2e).
Write clear technical documentation and workflow guides for artists and developers.
Manage escalated troubleshooting and debugging for ML-driven tools and services.
Work collaboratively under tight deadlines; mentor developers, assign tasks where appropriate, and report to the Head of ML Technology.
Enforce standards via CI: formatting (e.g., black/clang-format), linting (ruff/eslint, clang-tidy), typing (Python type hints, TypeScript), and test coverage gates.
Require code reviews for all merges; maintain modular, testable designs with clear separation of concerns and DCC-agnostic cores where applicable.
Documented APIs (OpenAPI/Protobuf), versioned schemas, and backward-compatible changes.
Secure-by-default practices (authn/z, secrets management), performance budgets, and telemetry by design.
Languages: Python 3.x (tooling and ML integration), C++17 (performance-critical components), TypeScript/JavaScript (web UIs).
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British private visual effects and animation studio serving film, television, streaming, and immersive-content creators.
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