💼 Full-Time Position

Technical Director PaFX (Houdini)

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Netflix
📍 vancouver, bc, Canada
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Location
vancouver, Canada
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Posted
June 14, 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

Job Summary

The Procedural Asset and FX Technical Director is a Houdini TD responsible for supporting all teams that use Sidefx Houdini. They work with the front‑end assets team, such as Surfacing and Modelling, and also back‑end shot‑based teams: Fx, Character‑fx, Crowds, and Matte Painting. They provide technical direction, troubleshoot pipelines, support artists, and develop tools to enable high‑quality technical outcomes across global production. What You’ll Do

Provide technical expertise and guidance for Houdini and USD technology for the departments they support. Understand the visual requirements for productions and propose new technologies or design procedures, techniques, and tools to ensure those needs are met. Provide technical expertise and guidance for technology within the PAFX department. Participate in or lead the direction, evolution and maintenance of technology within the PAFX department. Design, develop, review and write well‑maintainable, producti...