# Technical Artist Co-op

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $60,000 - $65,000 CAD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Technical Artist Co-op to join their world-class paid internship experience. The successful candidate will work with the Technical Art Team at EA SPORTS to help push visual boundaries and experiences for players.

The Technical Artist Co-op will report to the Senior Director, Technical Art, and work on a central technical art team supporting the technical delivery of content by developing tools, pipelines, and workflows across a distributed production environment.

Responsibilities:

- Partner with peers on the Technical Art team and with project Technical Art Directors to support game and studio vision

- Collaborate with content creators to understand issues and requirements and offer support

- Assess, design, implement, and maintain content creation tools/pipelines/workflows that meet artist needs and increase productivity

- Learn and familiarize yourself with multiple technologies, technical concepts, ideas, and problems

Qualifications:

- Enrolled in an accredited program in a related field

- Returning to school for at least one semester following the work term with EA

- Knowledge of 2D and 3D art packages (Maya and Photoshop desired)

- Experience in scripting and programming (Python and C# desired)

- Foundational experience with 3D concepts such as modeling, texturing, rendering, and lighting

- Basic familiarity with game engine workflows (Unity, Unreal), asset pipelines, and profiling

Benefits:

- Paid internship with a salary range of $60,000 - $65,000 CAD

- Vacation time (3 weeks per year to start)

- Sick time (10 days per year)

- Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits

- Extended health/dental/vision coverage

- Life insurance

- Disability insurance

- Retirement plan

## Skills

### Required
- 3D art
- scripting
- programming
- game engine workflows
- asset pipelines

### Nice to have
- Maya
- Photoshop
- Python
- C#

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