About The Embassy

The Embassy is a Canadian, Oscar-nominated production house, specializing in live-action production, post-production, and animation for feature films, television, and commercials. We are an independent creative studio with expertise in visual effects and production. Located in the heart of Vancouver’s Digital District, we work with global production companies, agencies and brands, in film, television and advertising. Our work has received accolades including Oscar nominations and numerous VES, Cannes, D&AD, Clio & ADCC awards

What We Do

We provide an integrated approach to visual effects production from concept to delivery including design, direction & post-production. With over 15 years' experience creating best in class visual effects we utilize CGI, animation, motion graphics and compositing to create compelling imagery.

Your Role

We are looking for a talented Pipeline Technical Director to join our team, to help us support ongoing shows and build Embassy’s global production pipeline. As a Pipeline TD, you will be exposed to all areas of production and will be working very closely with the artists, troubleshooting issues or developing custom tools to improve their workflow. Working at our Vancouver Studio, you will have the chance to work on high-end episodic and feature films productions. You may perform a diverse series of technical support and engineering functions in order to ensure the smooth running of our film visual effects projects.

What you will do 

Work with artists on troubleshooting and resolving production issues
Identify and resolve bugs in existing tools
Develop tools to speed up artists workflow
Suggest opportunities for toolset improvements with artists and development leads
Maintain up to date documentation of our tools
Work closely with the rest of the development team to support implementation of new core pipeline tools.

Your Qualifications
Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
In depth knowledge of the VFX production pipeline
In depth understanding of VFX and Feature animation tools, techniques, technologies and efficiencies
In depth knowledge of Python
Experience with common VFX APIs (Maya, Nuke, Houdini, USD, etc)
Knowledge of databases and web technologies
A proactive attitude and willingness to learn new things are essential

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about a role and feel you could be a great addition to our team, but your past experience or skill set doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd still love to receive your application. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.