Rendering Supervisor
Description
About Lytro: Lytro is revolutionizing high-end content creation for Virtual Reality and Cinema with the world’s first professional Light Field based solutions. We are backed by top-tier VCs including Andreessen-Horowitz, Greylock Partners, NEA, and North Bridge Venture Partners and have built a world-class team and dynamic culture driven by innovation and collaboration.
About Our Initiatives: Lytro Immerge:From the proprietary Light Field multi-camera capture system, to the rendering and post-production software and tools, Lytro
Immerge enables VR content creators to achieve life-like presence through 6DoF (six degrees of freedom).Lytro Cinema:Lytro Cinema is the world's first professional Light Field solution for movie and television production and post-production. From our proprietary camera design through to post-production and the final output mastering, Lytro Cinema enables movie-makers unparalleled creative freedom and flexibility on set and in post-production.
About The Opportunity: Our platform services team is growing and we are looking for a hands-on Rendering Sup to manage our local and cloud based rendering infrastructure across our Cinema and VR/AR initiatives. In this impactful role you will build and lead a small team of render wranglers and work with bleeding edge technologies and workflows.
Main Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain our large cloud server farm which processes enormous amounts of lightfield cinema and virtual reality content (think petabytes).
- Implement and manage novel rendering workflows for processing photographic 360° 6-DOF virtual reality content.
- Interface closely with internal and external VFX artists to efficiently process content on the render farm.
- Produce usage reports and forecasts for render farm to help scale server resources for upcoming productions.
- Generate storage reports for productions and work with TDs to manage data lifetimes.
- Grow and manage a small team of operations software engineers and/or render wranglers.
- Develop procedures and best practices to safeguard large amounts of proprietary data in both cloud and local environments."
- Document software pipeline procedures.
- Monitor job queues, re-prioritize jobs, re-size clusters, bump jobs and check frames in accordance with priorities.
- Become an expert user of Thinkbox’s Deadline render management software.
Required Skill & Experience:
- Experience hiring, training and leading a team of operations software engineers or render wranglers.
- Highly technical; able to help debug OS, network, and rendering issues.
- Linux system administration experience and familiarity with the Windows operating system.
- Working familiarity with cloud processing environments such as GCP or AWS.
- Can manage installation of 3rdParty software, apply patches, and build relationships with software vendors.
- Strong organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to record information accurately and to produce future workload estimates.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Bonus Points:
- Familiarity with Digital content creations software such as Nuke and Maya is a plus.
- Knowledge of render management software such as Deadline, Qube, or Tractor is a plus.
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