# Contract - Senior VFX Network Engineer at Thea Energy

- Company: Thea Energy
- What the company does: Thea Energy is building an economical and scalable fusion energy system utilizing arrays of mass manufacturable magnets and dynamic software controls. Backed by Prelude Ventures.
- Company website: https://thea.energy
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/thea.energy/bc47583a-6f93-4122-9fa1-e167c489a51d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/thea-energy-contract-senior-vfx-network-engineer/

## About the role

Research and implement innovative networking strategies that help to optimize the creative vision of the VFX CG Visualization Team. Partner with VFX and Corporate Technology teams to define architecture.

## What they're looking for

- Engineering-level knowledge of standard CG and compositing applications, including Maya, Arnold, Mudbox, Unreal, Nuke, Shotgrid, (and or Sync Sketch), and Adobe Creative Cloud
- 5+ years of Linux, macOS, and Windows system administration experience, including networking and scripting
- Demonstrable knowledge of scripting with Bash and Python
- Experience with configuring and maintaining enterprise-scale hardware: workstations, render farms, enterprise storage, cloud computing, and servers
- Strong understanding of storage and networking, including NFS, NAS storage clusters, as well as maintaining the CG Asset / Rendering file systems
- Familiarity with 3D rendering workflows, including Arnold or other CPU and GPU renderers, render farms, and AWS Deadline

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