Pipeline Engineer (Graphics/3D)

Key Responsibilities

• Bridge research and product by working closely with both graphics/computer vision researchers and frontend engineers to ship usable features.
• Turn standalone Python scripts into clean, production-ready systems with clear inputs, outputs, validations, and failure modes.
• Develop backend services, APIs, and tooling that expose complex 3D workflows in a reliable and scalable way.
• Assist in integrations across the 3D ecosystem, including asset import/export and format conversion with common DCC tools.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong pipeline mindset, with experience turning scripts into production systems with clear inputs, outputs, validations, and failure modes.
• Enjoy building tools and infrastructure that enable others, and take pride in making complex systems understandable and usable.
• Fluency in the 3D ecosystem, including familiarity with 3D algorithms, DCC tools and common 3D file formats, sufficient to design integrations and debug workflow issues.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Python, including packaging, typing, tooling, debugging, and performance profiling.
• Strong literacy in core 3D graphics and computer vision concepts, such as transforms, cameras, coordinate systems, rendering, and visual artifact debugging.
• Demonstrated experience taking prototypes to production, including refactoring, testing, CI/CD, versioned artifacts, and reproducibility.
• Solid backend fundamentals, including HTTP APIs, FastAPI (or similar frameworks), async/concurrency basics, cloud deployment, and service reliability.

Strongly Preferred / Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with photogrammetry, 3D reconstruction, or Gaussian splat rendering pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with DCC tools such as Blender, Maya, Houdini, Unreal, or Unity.
• Familiarity with the GPU stack (CUDA, PyTorch), batch/queue systems, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Frontend adjacency, with comfort collaborating on React-based parameter plumbing and UX for technical controls.
• Experience with production pipelines at VFX, animation, or gaming studios.
• A production support mindset, including willingness to iterate on documentation, tutorials, and error messages to improve usability and reduce misuse.