Principal Materials Artist (Apex Legends)

We are looking for a Principal Materials Artist to join our Apex Legends team to establish, direct, and maintain a core material library and surfacing workflows. As a Principal Material Artist on the project, you will be working within a multidisciplinary group on new asset pipeline initiatives that will standardize and elevate our surfacing presentation.

Responsibilities:

• Co-develop new surfacing strategies and pipelines in collaboration with rendering, technical art, and craft experts.
• Build, curate, and maintain a high-quality shared material library.
• Help design material systems or layered materials with an understanding of complex surface interactions.
• Contribute to tools and pipelines leveraging subject matter expertise in Substance Painter/Designer, Houdini Copernicus, or other related DCC tools.
• Be a champion for technology that meets high-performance expectations and technical constraints.
• Help test and validate new rendering and lighting features.
• Build partnerships and collaborative efforts between multiple disciplines to achieve successful solutions.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional game development experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating a wide range of high-quality materials and a mastery of PBR.
• Expert-level knowledge of Substance Painter and Designer.
• Direct production experience building shared material libraries that have been brought to market at a AAA scale and quality.
• Experience in live-service titles, seasonal content, cosmetics, or character customization systems is a plus.
• Experience collaborating with technical disciplines on standing up new pipelines.
• Capability to author materials or shaders as proof of concept or visual targets is a plus.
• Comfortable working with proprietary technology that ships on a wide range of platforms with performance as a top priority.
• Strong ability to clearly communicate, both verbally and in writing, create documentation, training materials, or mentoring junior artists.