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As a Senior Pipeline Engineer, you will be instrumental in advancing the boundaries of AI-driven content creation, while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethical AI practices, particularly in the domain of hyper-realistic content generation.\nAs a member of our pipeline engineering team, you’ll shape our core infrastructure set best practices, communicate with stakeholders and mentor your peers.\nThis position is perfect for someone with strong software engineering skills and a passion for media production technologies. You’ll work at the intersection of creativity and engineering to design and maintain scalable production pipelines to streamline workflows, and enable world-class storytelling.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, develop, and maintain the required platforms, plugins and extensions for 3rd party packages used in the pipeline.\nCollaborate with supervisors, technical directors, and production teams to identify new features and/or bottlenecks, and develop solutions that improve productivity and scalability.\nAutomate processes and data flow between departments to streamline production workflows.\nAssist in the packaging and deployment of pipeline tools.\nWrite the necessary end-user and developer documentation for developed tools\nTrain and support end users on how to use the developed tools.\nMust Haves\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Visualization, or VFX required.\n5+ years experience as a Senior Pipeline Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar role in a VFX, animation, or relevant development environment.\nExpert proficiency in Python; strong experience with other languages (e.g., C++, JavaScript) is a plus.\nDeep understanding of software development best practices: version control (Git), testing, CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Podman), and scalable system design.\nHands-on experience with DCC applications; such as Nuke, Houdini, Maya, Unreal, and their respective scripting or expression languages (e.g. VEX, TCL) is a strong asset.\nFamiliarity with production tracking tools like FPT (Autodesk Flow Production Tracking), ftrack, or similar.\nExperience with asset management systems, render farm management, industry standard review tools and automation scripting.\nExperience with standard UI/UX toolkits.\nStrong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex technical issues.\nComfortable working in a Linux-based environment.\nNice to Have\nExperience with Rez (or similar) for environment and package management.\nKnowledge of Alembic, OpenColorIO, USD (Universal Scene Description) and other open standards from the ASWF.\nExperience with web frameworks (e.g., Flask, FastAPI, Django) and database systems (PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Redis).\nExperience with performance profiling, system monitoring, and observability tools.\nUnderstanding of network protocols, security best practices, and compliance requirements.\nOpen-source contributions or technical writing experience.\nEntrepreneurial mindset or experience working with startups or fast-paced teams.\n About Us\nWe are DNEG, one of the world’s leading visual effects and animation companies for the creation of award-winning feature film,\ntelevision, and multiplatform content. We employ more than 9,000 people\nwith worldwide offices and studios across North America (Los Angeles,\nMontréal, Toronto, Vancouver), Europe (London), Asia (Bangalore, Mohali,\nChennai, Mumbai) and Australia (Sydney). \nAt DNEG, we fundamentally believe that embracing our differences is a vital component of our collective success. We are committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive work environment for our global teams, where everyone feels they matter and belong. We welcome and encourage applications from all, regardless of background, experience or disability. Please let us know if you need any adjustments or support during the application process, we will do our best to accommodate your needs. 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