# Senior VFX Artist (Apex Legends)

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, BC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $114,300 - $156,200 CAD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Respawn Entertainment, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts, is seeking a Senior VFX Artist to join the team working on Apex Legends. As a Senior VFX Artist, you will create and implement high-quality real-time VFX that bring Legends, weapons, and seasonal moments to life.

Responsibilities:

- Create and implement high-quality real-time VFX for legend abilities, weapons, seasonal content, and gameplay moments

- Help define and maintain the visual quality bar for VFX across seasonal updates, weapon releases, character abilities, and gameplay moments

- Actively mentor and guide VFX artists on the team, investing in their growth and supporting their long-term career goals

- Lead VFX problem-solving for complex content, including visual polish, performance constraints, and technical issues across the content pipeline

- Collaborate closely with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to develop effects that support gameplay, improve clarity, and strengthen the visual identity of Apex Legends

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of professional experience as a real-time VFX artist in the games industry

- Strong portfolio of shipped in-game real-time VFX work

- Genuine passion for mentoring and guiding other artists

- Proficiency with relevant DCC tools such as Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, or Substance Designer

- Strong cross-discipline communication and collaboration skills

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($114,300 - $156,200 CAD in British Columbia)

- Comprehensive benefits package, including vacation time, sick leave, health insurance, and retirement plan

## Skills

### Required
- Maya
- Houdini
- Photoshop
- Substance Designer
- real-time VFX
- game engine

### Nice to have
- first-person games
- sci-fi art direction
- live-service seasonal content
- AAA game credit

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