Effects Technical Director (Project Hire) - ILM San Francisco

The Walt Disney Company
📍 San Francisco, CA, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted July 06, 2026

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...

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Job Details

  • Location San Francisco, CA
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date July 06, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 11, 2026