Runtime Technical Artist (8-month contract)

Electronic Arts is seeking a Runtime Technical Artist for an 8-month contract at their DICE Stockholm studio.

As a Runtime Technical Artist, you will support the Technical Art Director with practical implementation and be part of the runtime Performance Team. You will help the wider art team with technical solutions in the engine, define budgets for content, report on project performance, and provide technical expertise to stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Report and communicate concerns regarding potential mismatches between artistic goals and practical reality.
• Provide technical feedback to project leaders on performance and budgets.
• Conduct in-depth performance evaluations of content and scenes, providing recommended actions.
• Offer technical expertise around performance to facilitate decisions.
• Perform profiling and review bugs to stay on top of issues.
• Provide clear guidance on technical performance constraints, maintain assets, and help define asset budgets.
• Optimize content to ensure high quality across the project.
• Document technical processes for art and technical artists project-wide.
• Review content and the game to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance with performance goals.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in technical art for games.
• Prior experience as a high-level Technical Artist on a AAA game team and at least one AAA shipped title is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of how Art affects performance and rendering.
• Strong understanding of content creation, 3D engines, and pipelines, and how to design and optimize them.
• Comfortable profiling games with tools such as PIX/Razor or RenderDoc.
• Good understanding of asset optimization challenges/techniques and content creation best practices.
• Some understanding of code and basic scripting skills.

Benefits: Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports a balanced life, including medical insurance, mental health support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, and free games.