Senior VFX Artist (Apex Legends)

Respawn Entertainment, an Academy Award-winning studio, is seeking a Senior VFX Artist to help lead the creation of high-impact real-time effects for Apex Legends.

In this role, you will create and implement VFX that bring Legends, weapons, and seasonal moments to life , reporting to the Senior VFX Director and collaborating closely with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to raise the visual quality bar across the game.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement high-quality real-time VFX for legend abilities, weapons, seasonal content, and gameplay moments , with a focus on delivering effects that feel visceral, impactful, and true to the intensity of Apex combat.
• Help define and maintain the visual quality bar for VFX across seasonal updates, weapon releases, character abilities, and gameplay moments.
• 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.
• Provide feedback, mentorship, and craft guidance to other VFX artists, helping raise the quality and consistency of the team’s work.
• Contribute to visual direction and help evolve Apex’s real-time VFX language, supporting production planning to ensure work is scoped and delivered effectively.

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; portfolio examples that showcase bombastic, gritty combat and VFX-driven player intensity are a strong plus.
• Proficiency with relevant DCC tools such as Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, or Substance Designer, and experience implementing your own work within a game engine or proprietary toolset.
• Experience mentoring, reviewing work, or helping guide other artists, with strong communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.
• Passion for making and playing games.
• Experience creating VFX for visceral, intense combat games is a plus.
• Experience with first-person games, sci-fi art direction, or live-service seasonal content is a plus.
• Shipped AAA game credit is a plus.