Technical Artist - Shader

Requisition Number: 166843

Position Title: Technical Artist 1

External Description:

We are EA

Over the last twenty years we've entertained millions of players around the world with our award-winning and massively entertaining games. We are a team of accomplished people who create games with joy and passion.

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.

What You'll Do:

We're looking for a Shader Technical artists who can create shaders across a range of styles from photo-real and physically based to unique creative styles using a combination of creative skill and technical shader creation techniques.

We need your passion to improve visual quality along with your ability to analyse reference and concept art to create real-time renderable assets. You will create assets and develop workflows including: colour processes, textures, shading networks, VFX and screen effects that support realising the creative vision for the game. You will also help achieve the highest visual quality possible within technical constraints, optimising shaders and troubleshooting assets.

You will report to the Technical Art Director and work with Lead Artists, Technical and Art Directors to create beautiful and efficient materials and workflows; along with guiding and inspiring our teams to achieve outstanding renderable assets.

What We're Looking For:

• Multiple shipped titles creating great looking, real-time shaders and materials.
• Experience using Substance suite's procedural material workflows and pipelines.
• Experience with physically based shader texture sets and pipelines.
• Knowledge of HLSL/GLSL, including shader optimisation.
• Knowledge of UV tools and methods.
• Proficient in the use of Z-Brush or Mud box to create normal maps, heights maps and displacement maps.
• Experience working with shaders in game engines like Unreal or Unity.
• Knowledge of game rendering pipelines, especially shading, lighting and reflections.
• Portfolio with examples of shaders, textures and VFX assets.
• A passion for working collaboratively as part of a team that pushes for quality.

 

 

 

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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: 97

Can this position be remote?: 1

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.