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Senior Technical Artist

Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

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Requisition Number: 175167

Position Title: Senior Technical Artist 2

External Description:

Development Technology & Solutions spans four continents, bringing together diverse individuals passionate about their craft from across the globe. They partner with EA Studios in every development phase while improving their expertise to create greater experiences for players. DTS participates in creating some of the most beloved games and supports ongoing live services. Through cutting-edge technology, data-driven insights, and state-of-the-art practices, they drive quality and directly impact players. They are a learning organization, sharing collaboratively and exploring creative ways to solve challenges in creating amazing games for millions of players worldwide.

The STG Tools and Technology Team is looking for accomplished people to help us fulfill our mission of providing creative tools and workflows that allow EA to lead the industry in content quality. Our group strives to build an ecosystem of modular components that are efficient, adjustable to trends and allow for quick iteration of any artistic idea into reality.

The Challenge Ahead:

As a Senior Technical Artist, you will lead the development of the latest Content Creation tools to improve the ways assets are and iterated on across the different departments involved in our AAA games. Our team partners with several groups spanning all aspects of asset creation including characters, world building, animation, rigging, audio and scanning, with whom we collaborate to bring art for modern games to life. Your job will be to identify global problems, propose solutions, develop tools , 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. You will report to a team Development Director.

Day to day you will:

  • Identify complex, systematic problems in the domain of tools, pipelines, and workflow development
  • Analyze problem spaces, risks, and dependencies across multiple domains and toolsets
  • Partner with end-users, both local and remote, to understand their workflows and toolset needs
  • Use creative and pioneering work to grow EA's technologies
  • Design, implement, and debug tools
  • Develop coding standards across team and projects
  • Mentor junior team members

Who You Are:

  • Relevant Bachelor's degree OR equivalent training and professional experience (6+ years)
  • Production experience with content creation/management pipelines for game production
  • Production experience with DCC apps such as Maya, Houdini
  • Production experience with programming/scripting languages. Python required.
  • Previous experience in tool development that may include procedural content creation, character editing tools, 2D and 3D art content pipelines, art importers/exporters, and GUI development
  • Passionate about working with both artists and engineers, understanding the gap between both disciplines

Bonus if you have:

  • Experience with C#
  • Experience with photogrammetry
  • Production experience with a game engine such as Unreal, Unity
  • Experience working with Source Code Control Systems (such as TFS, Perforce, Source Safe, SVN, GIT)
  • Exposure to unit testing concepts or frameworks (such as MBUnit, NUnit)
  • Exposure to build systems and concepts (such as TFS, Jenkins, NANT)
  • Experience with Agile (Scrum) development methodologies
  • Experience in UI development

 

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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: 19

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.

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