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Company Description

Mikros Animation is a global CGI animation studio, part of Technicolor Creative Studios, located in Paris, Montreal, Los Angeles, Bangalore and London, dedicated to feature films and episodic content. Since its inception, Mikros Animation has always put creativity and CG artistry at the heart of its animation and production activities, allowing our artists to work across a great variety of stories with a high level of stylized craft. So far, Mikros Animation has contributed to ten released feature animations and to numerous high-quality animated series, for the world’s best-known animation studios, either as creative studio, line producer or executive producer. Mikros Animation has also produced more than 250 hours of programming, broadcast by notable channels including Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, TF1, France TV, Gulli, M6, Gloob, and Super RTL. Our animated episodic content airs and streams globally, in over 180 countries.

At Mikros Animation, we believe great animation is about making real connections with real people. By partnering with filmmakers to unite their creative visions, with our industry-leading craftsmanship and artistry, we create characters that connect with audiences on an authentic and emotional level to bring powerful stories to life.

This is a great opportunity for a an ambitious late-stage Senior wishing to step up, or an established Architect wishing to work at the largest scale, to join an incredible team.
If you are passionate about data, architecture, artist and TD quality of life, and want to make meaningful contributions to one of the most productive environments in the industry, we want to hear from you

**Job Description**:
Primary Responsibilities
- Work with a mix of local and remote Team Members to ensure realistic planning, scheduling, and regular deliveries of the results to internal clients
- Mentor, guide or share knowledge with other team members, and grow with your peers
- Effectively shape and contribute to design, planning, tracking and deployment to a schedule, and inform the roadmap
- Design, architect and shape implementation of critical back-end systems, and third-party integration efforts
- Build and maintain relationships with internal clients (VFX Supervisors, Head of Department etc.)

**Qualifications**:
Essential Skills

Essential skills are those you have matured professionally, or have been practicing personally for a length of time and can demonstrate achievements in (e.g. personal repository, demos etc.)
- 5+ years in a creative industry in a technical role (Film, Episodic, Commercials, AA or AAA games)
- Experience leading a team with demonstrable experience of having delivered products and/or services to a client (internal or external)
- Technical STEM Degree, or equivalent applied knowledge
- A strong understanding of, and intuition for, the principles of computer graphics in at least two domains (pipeline/systems, rendering, simulation, animation)
- Strong Skills in C++ with an eye towards efficiency and performance
- Knowledge of at least one DCC API and willingness to learn others as needed
- Strong Knowledge of at least one Game Engine (Unreal preferred)
- Able to work in a multi-cultural, multi-site large organization
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a structure development environment (Version Control, Issue tracking, task tracking etc.)

Desirable Skills

Desirable skills are advantageous, but not strictly necessary.
- Python Programming
- Pixar USD, especially custom schemas, asset resolution and pipeline integration
- Epic Unreal, Operation and SDK
- Unity Technology’s Unity Game Engine and Editor, operation
- HLSL or GLSL Shader writing
- Maya, Operation and SDK
- Houdini, Operation and HDK

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