Render Wrangler

Render Wrangler for night shift on a short-term contract. This is a fully remote role with hours 5pm–1am (1 hr break). Responsibilities include overnight render-farm resource management, farm-efficiency optimization (GPU VRAM and CPU RAM/core considerations), monitoring farm health, issue escalation, pattern recognition for large-scale issues like network bottlenecks and license failures, distilling render logs for triage, understanding render farm job purposes within VFX workflows (FX, Lighting, Compositing, Turntable, Proxy, Mipmapping, Working plates, layout/animation), and reporting if overnight jobs cannot meet deadlines. Collaboration with Artists, Producers, I.T., and R&D to adapt to pipeline changes. Core skills include a sense of urgency and crisis management; basic Python (BONUS); knowledge of farm-management tools like Thinkbox Deadline; experience with task-queueing systems; experience managing 3D jobs on the farm (Houdini Karma, Arnold).