Senior Procedural Technical Artist (Apex Legends)

The Apex Legends team is looking for a Senior Procedural Technical Artist to drive the development and maintenance of procedural workflows across the franchise. You will be working within a multidisciplinary group specifically focused on identifying opportunities for these techniques, building solutions and carrying them across the finish line into production.

Responsibilities:

• Cross-Discipline Collaboration: Champion these techniques with artists, designers, and programmers to ensure procedural systems meet their goals and improve their workflows.
• Procedural System Development: Design artist-friendly tools and markup to generate content elements (e.g., set dressing, buildings, greeble, and destruction) quickly and easily.
• Performance Optimization: Optimize procedural workflows so they are fast but also the outputs of them so they produce ideal assets.
• Research & Development: Prototype ideas and evaluate new technologies.
• Education & Mentorship: Teach the team how to benefit from these techniques and how to use these tools to their advantage, write clear documentation and guide artists in procedural software techniques.

Qualifications:

• Experienced production artist with solid understanding of fundamentals.
• Deep understanding of game pipelines and workflows.
• Technical proficiency processing geometry and procedurally placing content in Houdini, Bifrost or another package.
• Ability to design scalable solutions that adapt to specific product needs, ideally without incurring additional art authoring burden.
• Able to demonstrate a pragmatic approach to cost, risk, and tradeoffs when considering new technology.
• Self-supporting in Houdini, Python, VEX, USD.

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits.

Pay Ranges:

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $122,300 - $170,700 CAD
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) $143,800 - $217,200 USD