# Senior Technical Artist (Rigging)

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Vancouver, British Columbia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Technical Artist (Rigging) to join the EA SPORTS Technology team at Electronic Arts in Vancouver. As a Senior Technical Artist, you will collaborate with Art Directors, Development Directors, Artists, and Engineers to achieve high-fidelity deformation content for EA Sports games.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to achieve high-fidelity deformation content

- Refine and improve workflows to tackle technical challenges and increase efficiency

- Leverage common technology and implement techniques to solve character animation and deformation challenges

- Partner with leadership to implement new initiatives and mentor newer artists

Qualifications:

- 5+ years of games production experience in technical art, rigging, or animation

- Bachelor's degree in a related field

- Expert knowledge of complex skeletons, control rigs, secondary animation, and skin deformations

- Strong understanding of human anatomy and animation principles

- Proficiency in 3D software packages such as Maya and Houdini

- Experience with asset optimization challenges and real-time limitations

- Scripting/programming skills in Python (C++/C# a bonus)

Benefits: Electronic Arts supports a balanced life with benefits programs that emphasize physical, emotional, financial, and professional well-being. Our packages are customized to meet local needs and may include medical insurance, mental health support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, and free games.

## Skills

### Required
- Maya
- Houdini
- Python
- C++
- C#
- technical art
- rigging
- animation
- character deformation

### Nice to have
- Unreal
- Unity
- Frostbite

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