Technical Interface Designer - EA SPORTS FC

The Technical Interface Designer (TID) bridges the gap between artists and software engineers by combining artistic skills and experience with programming and scripting.

Responsibilities:

• Recreation of authentic broadcast overlays and in-game overlays to match styles
• Learn and drive art asset conversion from legacy to new format
• Maintain best practices in code and art development
• UI animations and effects creation using proprietary game engine
• Apply proper art optimization techniques in art assets
• Quickly identify and debug art and animation related issues
• Motion demo design and creation for game front end and HUD and integration in game
• Collaborate with engineering and art, explaining both the art team needs and the tech constraints
• Document tools and workflows on the internal Wiki
• High fidelity rapid prototyping for UX evaluation
• Learn and support animations and UI work with legacy tech (Flash-based animations via ActionScript and timeline)

Qualifications:

• Technical skills, and ability to quickly learn new proprietary production tools and workflow
• Adept or be able to quickly learn various Object Oriented programming languages and scripts (e.g. Javascripts, C#)
• Familiar with scripting languages like Python
• Proficient with Adobe Photoshop and other graphics and animation applications
• 1+ years of experience creating 3D motion graphics, or interfaces with game engines such as Unreal or Unity
• Visual animation and programming