Jobs at Skydance Media

Develops, maintains, and supports character, facial, body, prop, and mechanical deformation rigs for animation, layout, and crowds. Collaborates with R&D, art, modeling, layout, and animation teams; troubleshoots rig issues; implements procedural rig components and custom tools; sculpts expressions; incorporates artistic feedback; and prototypes techniques for production challenges. Provides guidance to team members and delivers production-ready work according to pipeline and quality standards.

Architects, deploys, maintains, secures, and automates Linux-based services for an animation studio. Develops provisioning and management tools, promotes programmatic service deployment, documents operating procedures, ensures high service uptime, establishes studio-wide systems standards, and supports team development. Requires experience with Ansible, RHEL, Bash or PowerShell, DevOps methodologies, virtualization, deployment processes, and 3D animation environments.

Creates 3D previsualization and scene layouts for animated films, translating storyboards into cinematic shots with character blocking, camera staging, and acting. Collaborates with supervisors, leads, and production teams while providing artistic guidance and managing assigned work. Requires strong 3D animation aptitude, photography and storytelling knowledge, Maya experience, and familiarity with non-linear editing tools. Unreal Engine and Linux experience are preferred.

Deploys, maintains, monitors, and supports cloud and on-premises infrastructure, servers, networks, and services. Responsibilities include upgrades, patching, backups, recovery, configuration integrity, automation, documentation, vulnerability management, high availability, and third-level technical support. The role collaborates across departments to establish infrastructure standards and participates in system planning while applying configuration-as-code and infrastructure automation practices.

Leads strategy, analytics, financial modeling, market intelligence, and business operations for Paramount Games. Develops long-range plans, KPI infrastructure, dashboards, executive reporting, transaction analyses, and operating rhythms. Partners with Finance, Legal, Corporate Strategy, Data, Technology, and other functions to evaluate opportunities, improve decision-making, and drive strategic initiatives. Builds and eventually leads the Strategy and Business Operations team.

The Principal Engineer designs and implements game features, collaborates with teams, drives innovation, and provides technical leadership in game development.