Senior Environment Technical Artist

We are seeking a Senior Environment Technical Artist to join our EA SPORTS Technology team at Electronic Arts in Vancouver, Canada.

As a Senior Environment Artist, you will collaborate closely with Art and Craft Directors, Tech Artists, and Tech Art Directors to create content for a wide variety of stadiums and arenas, from realistic to futuristic to fantasy.

Responsibilities:

• Create high-quality benchmark geometry, materials, and shaders.
• Create photorealistic tiling and atlas materials following established PBR standards and layered materials/shaders.
• Create proof-of-concept layouts to inform game systems, set dressing, and composition.
• Deconstruct concept art, reference imagery, and style guides into efficient asset lists, identifying opportunities for modular construction and asset reuse.
• Create high-fidelity architectural and environmental content from greybox through final production assets.
• Collaborate with Lighting, Design, Engineering, and Technical Art to implement production solutions and solve content challenges.
• Explore and evolve techniques, and workflows that improve quality and efficiency.
• Maintain and contribute to best practices.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of production experience creating environment assets and entire levels
• Expert knowledge of Maya (preferably) or similar 3D software.
• Exceptional asset creation abilities, particularly architectural and structural content.
• Experience working from greybox to final assets, using low-fidelity content to validate approaches before production.
• Strong understanding of proportion, composition, lighting, and modular construction.
• Ability to assess scope, provide estimates, and deliver high-quality work on schedule.
• Extensive experience with complex game engines such as Unreal, Frostbite, or Unity.
• Experience actively collaborating with Designers, Engineers, and Technical Artists.
• Advanced high-fidelity modeling skills.
• Ability to create photorealistic materials using industry-standard tools such as Substance Painter and Substance Designer, combining photographic, scanned, and procedural elements.
• Strong technical skills, with demonstrable understanding of memory and GPU budgets, and best practices for creating high quality performant content.
• Experience working with outsource vendors is a plus.
• Experience creating game engine shader graphs is a plus.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off and holidays
• Access to free games and gaming services