Principal Technical Artist - Tools (Apex Legends)

We are seeking a Principal Technical Artist to join our Apex Legends team, focusing on designing and delivering future-forward content creation workflows. As a Principal Technical Artist, you will work within the technical art team's pipeline group, addressing customer requests for new workflows, collaborating with stakeholders and engineering to design, build, test, and integrate solutions.

Core Roles and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with end-users to discuss challenges and identify opportunities.
• Educate the team on leveraging and using the system, setting best practices, and encouraging adoption.
• Build and drive multi-disciplinary coalitions to find solutions across organisational boundaries.
• Design, build, and maintain art pipelines and custom tools.
• Automate testing and validation of workflows.
• Optimise slow processes and procedures.
• Learn proprietary systems and make them accessible to others.
• Troubleshoot unknown issues and solve problems.
• Help teams transition content from old to new workflows and automate adapting content to meet new requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional game development experience.
• Expertise in designing and implementing tools and workflows.
• Proficiency with programming in DCC (python, mel, C#) or similar languages and UI frameworks (Qt).
• Familiarity with third-party software such as Autodesk Maya and Adobe's Creative Cloud suite.
• Interest in content creation workflows, techniques, and innovation.
• Experience building large workflows/tools and supporting them through a game's development cycle.

Compensation and Benefits

• The salary range for this role in California is $165,000 - $256,000 USD.
• Benefits include paid time off, sick time, company holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k).