Inference Artist
Job Summary
Job Description
Magnopus seeks experienced Inference Artists to generate high-quality VFX elements using AI tools like Google's Veo2. Responsibilities include generating VFX elements for shots, evaluating narrative coherence, collaborating with other departments, engineering effective prompts, refining inputs based on model outputs, providing quality feedback, and ensuring visual consistency. The role requires a strong artistic sensibility, technical aptitude, familiarity with traditional VFX DCCs and AI-driven tools, excellent communication, and the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. This is an on-site, full-time position in Downtown Los Angeles.
Must have:
- Strong artistic skills
- VFX experience
- AI tool familiarity
- Prompt engineering skills
- Technical aptitude
- Collaboration skills
Perks:
- Ongoing education
- Mentorship opportunities
- Generous healthcare
- Time off
10 skills required
Job Details
We’re expanding a team of experienced Inference Artists to generate high-quality elements using prompt-based gen AI tools such as Google’s Veo2. This team will work closely with our VFX teams, integrating the generated elements into their environments for final compositing. The core responsibility of the Inference Artist is to use images, video, and prompt engineering to generate high-quality elements, both technically and artistically. Experience in visual effects, as well as a familiarity with the functions and concepts of genAI models is essential. This project is “applied research and development” and requires a unique set of skills to be successful. We’re in a continuous state of development, discovery, and improvement that benefits from patience, flexibility, creative problem-solving, and an open mind to achieve amazing results.
This is a full-time, on-site position based in our Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) office.
Responsibilities
- Generate VFX-style elements using prompt-based gen AI tools for shot specific requirements.
- Evaluate narrative and aesthetic coherence between generated elements and original source material.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure visual consistency and narrative alignment across teams.
- Engineer and maintain effective prompts, inputs, and hyperparameters to generate a high level of detail, adherence, and consistency. Refinement of inputs based on video outputs from models following a disciplined approach to measuring results.
- Provide feedback on generation quality and flag any mismatches or visual inconsistencies, as well as their possible solutions, while maintaining a high standard of quality.
- Being a great person to work with. Teamwork is the most essential part of doing new things, and we don’t have room for people who put themselves before their co-workers.
Required Qualifications
- Strong artistic sensibility with a good eye for detail, lighting, composition, and movement.
- Technical aptitude for visual troubleshooting and detailed QC.
- Familiarity with traditional VFX DCCs (Nuke, Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.)Experience with AI-driven VFX tools and workflows
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, both for collaboration with your team, and for prompt engineering.
- Ability to work autonomously while collaborating within a larger pipeline.
- Comfort working on rolling deliveries with quick turnarounds.
- Must be able to work on-site in DTLA.
Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.
Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together. We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits.
We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.
Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:
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