Senior Technical Artist - Tech

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. As one of the largest sports entertainment platforms in the world, EA SPORTS FC is redefining football with genre-leading interactive experiences.

As a Senior Technical Artist - Tech, you will drive asset development by defining how EA's internal game engines enable high-quality content production through pipelines and toolchains. You will lead the development of in-game visual features and lead platform-specific performance management and algorithm optimization.

Responsibilities:

• Drive asset development by defining how EA's internal game engines enable high-quality content production through pipelines and toolchains
• Lead the development of in-game visual features and lead platform-specific performance management and algorithm optimization
• Collaborate closely with Technical Directors and Art Directors to provide tools and best-practice guidance to support project vision
• Define and own content creation standards, including data structures, naming conventions, and technical specifications
• Work with engineers, artists, and designers to define performance management and asset validation metrics and workflows
• Resolve complex technical issues and systematically analyze and optimize content to achieve required performance and visual quality
• Lead content reviews across all stages of development, provide clear technical direction and feedback to artists, and ensure effective issue escalation and resolution
• Maintain, extend, and evolve the engine and art toolchain based on project requirements
• Provide technical workflow leadership for artists and content creators, own shared script libraries and toolchain codebases, and participate in code reviews

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience
• Shipped at least one title using Unreal Engine or Unity
• Bachelor's degree or above in a related field
• Good at working with artists, engineers, and management from different professional backgrounds
• Experience with 3D art pipelines and tools (Maya / Blender / Substance)
• Familiar with Perforce or Git
• Experience in technical debugging and performance optimization
• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, C#, or Lua
• HLSL / GLSL shader skills and solid graphics fundamentals
• Experience with C++ development and GPU programming