Job Functions1. VFXstyle elements generation using prompt-based gen AI tools2. Integration of generated elements into final compositing3. Collaboration with other departments to ensure visual consistency and narrative alignment across teams
Job Requirements1. Generate VFXstyle elements using prompt-based gen AI tools for shot specific requirements2. Evaluate narrative and aesthetic coherence between generated elements and original source material3. Collaborate with other departments to ensure visual consistency and narrative alignment across teams4. Engineer and maintain effective prompts, inputs, and hyperparameters to generate a high level of detail, adherence, and consistency.5. Refinement of inputs based on video outputs from models following a disciplined approach to measuring results.
Skills1. Strong artistic sensibility with a good eye for detail, lighting, composition, and movement.2. Technical aptitude for visual troubleshooting and detailed QC.3. Familiarity with traditional VFX DCCs (Nuke, Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.)4. Experience with AIdriven VFX tools and workflows5. Excellent written and verbal communication skills1. Being a great person to work with2. Teamwork is the most essential part of doing new things3. Nice to have: familiarity with ComfyUI, finetuning models, generating LoRA, creating and editing workflows.4. Engineering & Scripting experience: familiarity with command line interfaces, Python, etc.
We’re expanding a team of experienced Inference Artists to generate high-quality elements using prompt-based gen AI tools such as Google’s Veo2. This team will work closely with our VFX teams, integrating the generated elements into their environments for final compositing. The core responsibility of the Inference Artist is to use images, video, and prompt engineering to generate high-quality elements, both technically and artistically. Experience in visual effects, as well as a familiarity with the functions and concepts of genAI models is essential. This project is “applied research and development” and requires a unique set of skills to be successful. We’re in a continuous state of development, discovery, and improvement that benefits from patience, flexibility, creative problem-solving, and an open mind to achieve amazing results.
This is a full-time,
on-site
position based in our
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA)
office.
Responsibilities
- Generate VFX-style elements using prompt-based gen AI tools for shot specific requirements.
- Evaluate narrative and aesthetic coherence between generated elements and original source material.
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure visual consistency and narrative alignment across teams.
- Engineer and maintain effective prompts, inputs, and hyperparameters to generate a high level of detail, adherence, and consistency. Refinement of inputs based on video outputs from models following a disciplined approach to measuring results.
- Provide feedback on generation quality and flag any mismatches or visual inconsistencies, as well as their possible solutions, while maintaining a high standard of quality.
- Being a great person to work with. Teamwork is the most essential part of doing new things, and we don’t have room for people who put themselves before their co-workers.
Required Qualifications
- Strong artistic sensibility with a good eye for detail, lighting, composition, and movement.
- Technical aptitude for visual troubleshooting and detailed QC.
- Familiarity with traditional VFX DCCs (Nuke, Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.)Experience with AI-driven VFX tools and workflows
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, both for collaboration with your team, and for prompt engineering.
- Ability to work autonomously while collaborating within a larger pipeline.
- Comfort working on rolling deliveries with quick turnarounds.
- Must be able to work on-site in DTLA.
Nice To Have
- Familiarity with ComfyUI, fine-tuning models, generating LoRA, creating and editing workflows.
- Engineering & Scripting experience: familiarity with command line interfaces, Python, etc.
- Obsessive respect and understanding for the history of cinema, and the desire to preserve the creative and innovative integrity of those who have come before us, while advancing new techniques for future generations.
$100,000 - $165,000 a yearSalaries offered are based on candidate experience, internal equity, and the level at which they are hired.Magnopus is an experience focused technology company founded by a team of Oscar-winning artists, designers, and engineers from games, films, and other unusual places. We’re passionate about creating rich experiences that unite the physical and digital worlds.Because we’re building the future, we endeavor to create a diverse, creative workplace where people from many perspectives collaborate across disciplines to create amazing things together.
We invest in our employee's progression with ongoing education and mentorship opportunities through their guilds, and support their happiness and productivity through generous health care, time off, and other benefits. We try to foster a safe environment where we can take risks, and learn from our failures. While we value individual talents, we favor collaboration more. We believe that the leadership of the company works for the employees, not the other way around. We feel strongly that our employees guide who we are as a company and the work we create, so we look for characteristics of curiosity, empathy, respect, honesty, and courage in every candidate.Though we’ve delivered a lot of crazy stuff, here are a few you can check out at home:Mission: ISSDisney Pixar Coco VRBlade Runner 2049: Memory LabThe Lion King - Virtual ProductionElixirApply for this job
Life at Magnopus
Magnopus is an Experience Company forging art, science, and technology to create new experiences across virtual reality, augmented reality, and good ol' fashioned reality reality.
Located in downtown Los Angeles, we are empowered by an Academy Award-winning team of artists, engineers, and "get it done" producers who bring a diverse body of experience and creative solutions to the field. We're working on original and licensed IP for VR experiences that are game engine-driven, footage-driven, or a mix of both. Our technology teams are developing AR platforms and custom VR platforms for clients on Oculus Rift & Go, HTC Vive, Samsung GearVR, Magic Leap and HoloLens using Unity, Unreal, and original software development.
Our unique focus on story and content-driven technology development gives us advance access to some of our partner's over-the-horizon hardware and software developments in light field technology, holographic and translucent displays, HMDs, performance capture, and human computing interfaces.
We're honored to have a diverse team of talented individuals building products and experiences that have a positive impact on people's everyday lives, whether in entertainment, education, industry, or government.
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