Technical Artist - EA SPORTS™ UFC

Electronic Arts is seeking a Technical Artist to join the EA SPORTS UFC team in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Technical Artist plays a critical role in advancing how teams deliver world-class experiences. Reporting to the Technical Art Director, you will help drive quality at scale, own runtime performance and optimization across multiple platforms. You will collaborate closely with rendering engineers and art leads to build, test, refine and debug anything that comes between visual quality and high performance.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with rendering engineers and art leads to build, test, refine and debug visual quality and performance
• Own runtime performance and optimization across multiple platforms
• Help drive quality at scale

Qualifications:

• At least 5+ years of games production experience
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field
• Effective communication with different audiences: artists, engineers, managers
• Proficient in visual or textual scripting/programming (e.g. Shader Graphs, Blueprints, Python, C#)
• Proficient with graphics debuggers/profilers (PIX, RenderDoc) and memory/runtime resource management
• Experience with asset optimization challenges/techniques
• Willingness to jump into the unknown and solve new problems
• Proficiency with commercial game engines/editors like Unity/Unreal is a plus
• Experience in utilizing AI-assisted development tools
• Passion for Games!

Benefits:

• Vacation (3 weeks per year to start)
• 10 days per year of sick time
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement plan