Sr Technical Artist

Requisition Number: 153729

Position Title: Senior Technical Artist

External Description:

Senior Software Engineer

 

EA Create Tools & Technology team is looking for talented individuals to help us fulfill our mission of providing innovative tools and workflows that enable EA to lead the industry in content quality. With locations across the globe, our group strives to build an ecosystem of modular components that are efficient, adaptable to trends and allow for quick iteration of any artistic idea into reality.

 

What the Senior Software Engineer will do:

As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will help lead the effort to refine, optimize and generally improve the ways data is organized, built and iterated on across the different departments involved in making content for our AAA games. The EA Create Tools & Technology team partners with several groups spanning all aspects of asset creation including character and world building, animation, rigging, audio and scanning, with whom we collaborate to bring art for modern games to life. As a leader on the team, your job will be to identify global problems, propose solutions, write software and build technologies that help our partner teams be more efficient in all aspects of asset creation; all with an eye towards common, scalable solutions that work across all groups and titles.

 

What you do:

• Identify and solve complex, systematic problems in the domain of tools, pipeline and workflow development
• Analyze problem spaces, risks and dependencies across multiple domains and/or toolsets
• Partner closely with end users to understand their workflows and toolset needs
• Use leading edge and pioneering work to advance EA’s technologies
• Gather requirements across large efforts that span multiple teams, locations and disciplines
• Architect tool design, implementation and debugging
• Define, communicate and implement coding standards across team and projects
• Mentor junior team members

 

Who you are:

• You have these technical skills
  • Expertise in C# development with working knowledge of .NET, and WPF
  • Working knowledge of C++ utilized in large scale projects
  • Understanding of UI, UX Concepts
  • Experience in tool development - including content creation packages, world editing tools, 2D and 3D art content pipelines, art importers/exporters, automated content/data build systems and GUI development.
  • Experience architecting and developing large-scale design
  • Working knowledge of large Relational Databases
  • Promote code quality through unit-testing, code-review and automation
  • Ability to analyze and improve workflow to enhance group productivity
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and hands-on experience
• You have these soft skills
  • Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative interdisciplinary team environment
  • Creative mindset with focus on how to improve product quality as well as group productivity
  • Working with Content creators.
  • Ability to quickly learn concepts and principles and apply them to new and existing solutions
  • Demonstrate dependability and reliability to complete projects/tasks

 

Bonus if you have:

• Exposure to unit testing frameworks
• Experience with build systems and concepts
• Experience with Agile (Scrum) development methodologies
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python
• Experience in Animation pipelines for large scale projects
• Experience with Houdini and procedural solutions
• Experience with Web Development, Service Development, Cloud architecture

 

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 306

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.