Description
The Technical Artist plays a critical role in advancing how teams deliver world-class experiences. Reporting to the Technical Art Director, you'll help drive quality at scale, own runtime performance and optimization across multiple platforms.
You’ll collaborate closely with rendering engineers and art leads to build, test, refine and debug anything that comes between that perfect blend of visual quality and high performance.
Candidates may come from Art, Design, Mathematics, Engineering, or Computer Science, but you must be comfortable operating at the intersection of creativity and technology.
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
- A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field
- Effective at communicating with different audiences: artists, engineers, managers
- Proficient in visual (e.g. Shader Graphs, Blueprints) or textual (Python, C#) scripting/programming (C++ is a bonus but is not required)
- Proficient with graphics debuggers/profilers (PIX, RenderDoc) and memory/runtime resource management
- A solutions-provider, especially as it pertains to testing and debugging technical issues
- Experience with asset optimization challenges/techniques
- A willingness to jump into the unknown and solve new problems to resolve technical challenges and limitations
- Proficiency with commercial game engines/editors like Unity/Unreal is a plus
- Experience in utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g. coding agents) to rapid prototype, accelerate execution and automate workflows, with the ability to critically review and validate AI-generated code
- A Passion for Games!
Benefits: Electronic Arts applies a comprehensive approach to its benefits programs, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, professional and social well-being to support a sustainable lifestyle.