ML VFX Artist & Technical Director

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

El Ranchito in Madrid and Barcelona creates world-class visual effects for major film and television projects. We are seeking a Machine Learning Artist / Technical Director who combines strong visual judgement with coding and applied ML skills to join our Pitch Black network.

Reporting to the Machine Learning Supervisor, this hands-on role sits between artistry, pipeline development and applied ML, building workflows, evaluating solutions and helping artists use them on real productions.

Formación

• Professional production experience as a VFX artist or artist-facing TD in at least one department.
• A strong reel, portfolio or body of work demonstrating visual judgement and technical problem-solving.
• Practical experience applying machine learning, computer vision or generative models to image, video, geometry or related media.
• Strong Python skills and experience creating maintainable production tools.
• Familiarity with Git, APIs, package and environment management, and reproducible development practices.
• Experience with an ML framework such as PyTorch or equivalent.
• Working understanding of model inference, datasets, evaluation, fine‑tuning and GPU‑based processing.
• Experience integrating tools into at least one major VFX application or production pipeline.
• Solid understanding of production imagery, including colour, dynamic range, resolution, compositing requirements and temporal consistency.
• Fluent in English; able to collaborate across international teams.

Responsabilidades

• Apply ML to solve real VFX challenges across production pipelines.
• Investigate technical solutions and build or adapt workflows.
• Collaborate with artists to implement and troubleshoot tools.
• Integrate tools into VFX applications and production pipelines.
• Explain technical ideas clearly to teams.

Conocimientos

Python

Machine learning

Computer vision

Generative models

ML frameworks

Herramientas

Git

APIs

CUDA

OpenCV

Diffusers

PyTorch

Descripción del empleo

El Ranchito in Madrid and Barcelona creates world-class visual effects for major film and television projects. We are seeking a Machine Learning Artist / Technical Director who combines strong visual judgement with coding and applied ML skills to join our Pitch Black network.

Reporting to the Machine Learning Supervisor, this hands-on role sits between artistry, pipeline development and applied ML, building workflows, evaluating solutions and helping artists use them on real productions.