Technical Artist

Requisition Number: 150713

Position Title: Contingent

External Description:

Technical Artist - 7 months contract

We are Criterion. We love games.

Over the last fifteen years we’ve entertained millions of players around the world with our award-winning and massively entertaining games. We are a team of talented people who craft games with joy, passion, and commitment to quality.

At Criterion, we place enormous value on creative collaboration, fresh ideas, and unique perspective. Our studio is a healthy mix of industry veterans and newcomers working together to inspire, support, and educate one another.

The Challenge Ahead:

The Technical Artist provides the link between art and programming, with responsibility for the technical delivery of art across a distributed production environment.

What Technical Artist does at Criterion:

Working alongside Senior TAs and Technical Art Director, you will help design, create and maintain the art workflow/pipeline, writing & documenting tools to solve team needs, both internally and supporting the outsource team. The successful candidate will need to have good artistic skills together with understanding of art workflows and scripting/programming.

A Technical Artist also needs: 

General Requirements

• Genuine passion for art and motivation to help artists to focus on creating art instead of fighting technical problems
• Ability to work within a team of experienced technical artists. Great communication skills, a drive to improve everything and a motivation to make a difference
• Must be a great multi-tasker and able to track progress and solve problems
• Proactive and dynamic troubleshooter who works well under pressure
• Good knowledge of 3D (Maya/MEL/Python/SDK) & 2D Packages (Photoshop, Substance Painter/Designer)
• 3D Engine experience – Unreal, Unity or similar.
• Practical knowledge of performance optimization in games.
• Experience with writing batch scripts to automate processes (Python, Java Script, MEL)

 

Maya experience

• Knowledge of Modelling/Texturing/UVs
• Excellent Python and MEL scripting skills
• Maya API experience is a bonus

 

Additional skills (one or more of the listed ones would be a big plus)

• Knowledge of rigging tools and techniques
• Knowledge of shader authoring techniques
• Experience with procedural content creation (Houdini)
• Knowledge of Visual Studio C#/C++ is a bonus

 

What’s in it for you? Glad you asked!

We realize it takes world-class people to make world-class games, so we offer competitive rates and a culture that thrives off of creativity and individuality. At EA, we live the “work hard/play hard” credo every day.

We thought you might also want to know:

More about our studio: http://criteriongames.com/

More about our location: http://careers.ea.com/our-locations/guildford

 

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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: 63

Can this position be remote?:

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.