Stage Technical Artist

4 Weeks ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Stage Technical Artist will bridge creative and technical workflows on the virtual production stage, working with Unreal Engine and Houdini. Responsibilities include implementing and optimizing real-time assets in Unreal Engine, Houdini, and other DCCs, prepping and refining content for stage delivery with VAD teams. The role involves addressing creative notes, supporting lookdev and lighting, building procedural tools, and maintaining workflows for content ingestion and versioning. The artist will collaborate on USD workflows and resolve stage-facing issues quickly.
Must have:
  • Implement and optimize real-time assets.
  • Work with VAD teams for content prep.
  • Address creative notes.
  • Support lookdev and lighting.
  • Build procedural tools and pipelines.
  • Maintain and improve workflows.
  • Collaborate on USD workflows.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve stage-facing issues.

Job Details

Eyeline Studios
At Eyeline, Scanline VFX's virtual production division, we want to provide you with a solid foundation where you can be a part of an innovative team of brilliant researchers, developers and virtual storytellers. Learn more.

We’re looking for a Stage Technical Artist with strong Unreal and Houdini experience to help bridge creative and technical workflows on our virtual production stage. You’ll work at the intersection of content creation, optimization, research and real-time performance — supporting lookdev, procedural content, and on-set creative problem-solving.

You’ll collaborate closely with Stage Operators, the VAD team, and production leads to make sure content lands on stage ready-to-go, looks great, and feedback can be addressed quickly and cohesively.


Key Responsibilities

    • Implement and optimize real-time assets in Unreal Engine, Houdini, and other DCCs
    • Work with VAD teams to prep and refine content for stage delivery
    • Address creative notes in real-time using Blueprints, material work, and light touch modeling/FX
    • Support lookdev, lighting, and real-time material tuning
    • Build procedural tools and pipelines using Houdini and Houdini Engine
    • Maintain and improve workflows for content ingestion, optimization, and versioning
    • Collaborate on USD workflows, PDG pipelines, and content version control
    • Troubleshoot and resolve stage-facing issues quickly under pressure

Qualifications

    • Proficiency in Unreal Engine (Blueprints, Materials, Lighting, Level Optimization)
    • Strong experience with Houdini — procedural systems, PDG, Houdini Engine
    • Understanding of performance tuning for real-time environments
    • Experience with USD pipelines and stage-ready asset prep
    • Creative eye and ability to balance quality with technical needs
    • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-pressure on-set environment
    • Clear communicator who can translate between creative and technical teams
$65 - $70 an hour
This salary range is specific to applicants applying to our position in Los Angeles, California. To determine your base salary, we consider your qualifications, skills, and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary outside of this range and will also be dependent on your location.
About Us
Scanline VFX is an award-winning leader in the visual effects industry with 8 studios worldwide, including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich (will cease to operate by year's end), Seoul, Mumbai and Vancouver. Since our beginning in 1989, we strive to set the highest standard of quality in everything we do. Through innovation, we generate solutions for our clients and raise the bar — both within our workplace and throughout our industry.

We look for explorers, people who are willing to go to new places and are open to testing, learning and iterating as they go. We believe great ideas come from everyone, so we actively encourage team members to ask questions and present their ideas.

Powered by Netflix
Netflix’s investment in our pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows us to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in visual effects. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, we continue to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients.

Come as you are
We are committed to ensuring fair and equal treatment of your application. When you apply for a role with us, you will receive consideration based solely on your qualifications.

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Scanline VFX is an award-winning, global leader in the visual effects industry with studios in 7 core locations including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. From humble beginnings over 30 years ago, we’ve grown to a team of over 1,200 made up of diverse nationalities from around the world. We believe in the power of storytelling and are committed to helping filmmakers realize their artistic vision. Underpinned by a commitment to innovation, collaboration and long-standing partnerships, we continue to develop innovative tools, techniques and technologies, to offer filmmakers the ultimate in creative freedom. Eyeline Studios, Scanline’s virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility.

Netflix’s investment in Scanline’s pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows Scanline to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in VFX. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, Scanline continues to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients outside of Netflix.

Established in 1989 in Munich, Scanline became well-known for our ability to create photorealistic natural phenomena such as fire, smoke and water, having developed our proprietary fluid simulation software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, and was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award® for the software.

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