Maya TD

Mikros Animation is hiring a Maya TD based in Montreal to join their VFX pipeline team. This role sits at the intersection of technical support and pipeline development, building and maintaining the tools that keep artists moving across modeling, texturing, and shot production. It suits a technically grounded artist-turned-TD who understands how production pressure actually feels and can write solutions that hold up under it.

About the Role

The Maya TD works directly within the pipeline department at Mikros Animation, supporting artists across departments on animated feature film and VFX production. Day to day, this means triaging support tickets, diagnosing broken workflows, and building publisher tools that validate assets before they move through the pipeline. You’re the person who catches the problem before it becomes a delay on the production floor.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide front-line technical support to artists on assets and shots, troubleshooting Maya-specific issues as they arise during production.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable pipeline tools with a focus on reusability and integration across the VFX pipeline.
• Develop and maintain publishing tools for modeling and texturing departments, ensuring assets meet technical specs and data integrity requirements before handoff.
• Identify workflow bottlenecks across departments and drive consistency in how assets move through the animation studio pipeline.
• Perform QC on assets, address supervisor review notes, and maintain production scripts across the life of a show.
• Document tools clearly and train department artists on new workflows as they roll out.

What You Bring

• Solid hands-on experience as a Maya TD or pipeline TD on animated features, episodic television, or VFX production.
• Deep working knowledge of Autodesk Maya, including scripting for tool development and cross-DCC interoperability.
• Proficiency in Python for pipeline tool development and production script maintenance.
• Experience building or supporting asset publishing workflows with an understanding of data validation and pipeline integrity.
• Ability to read a production schedule and prioritize support requests without being told twice.

Why This Role

Mikros Animation has built a reputation as a serious animation studio with a consistent slate of theatrical features and a pipeline that supports work at scale. Montreal is one of the stronger markets in North America for animation and VFX talent, and this role puts you inside a team that actually invests in pipeline infrastructure rather than patching it together show by show. For a TD who wants to build things that last, this is the kind of position that adds real weight to a resume.

Apply now for the Maya TD position at Mikros Animation and bring your pipeline skills to a production environment built for it.