💼 Full-Time Position

Effects Technical Director (Project Hire) - ILM San Francisco

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The Walt Disney Company
📍 San Francisco, CA, United States
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Location
San Francisco, United States
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Posted
June 24, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

We are looking for an Effects TD who reflects the innovative spirit, creative talent, production excellence, collaborative mindset and passion for great filmmaking that define ILM.

The Effects TD generates FX animation, procedural simulation, dynamic simulation, particle and fluid systems for feature film visual effects. They are responsible for lighting, rendering and moderate-level compositing of complex shots with guidance from their supervisors.

**What You’ll Do**

+ Designs and creates FX animation, procedural simulation, dynamic simulation, particle and fluid systems
+ Responsible for setting-up and wrangle heavy particle effects and enormous crowd shots
+ Excellent pipeline scripting ability
+ Solid compositing ability, can wrangle blue-screen extractions, working understanding of Nuke
+ Can write plug-ins, debug simulations and write set up and surface shaders with proficiency
+ Can write/hack procedural surface shaders and volumetric sh...