Electronic Arts

EA Create

EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to bring outstanding visuals, audio and technology to life. Our teams consist of artists, engineers, technicians, designers and development directors. Worldwide, we combine our teams to form a global group of extraordinary individuals fueled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing visuals, sound and experiences. We’re a diverse team that is unified through collaboration, culture and craft.

Technical Art

Technical Art is the bridge between the art and programming departments, with the capability to understand the nuances of art creation and technical code. Creating pipelines and tools to improve overall efficiency for all departments they're connected to.

Senior Technical Artist - Capture

We are looking for a Senior Technical Artist to lead our Capture Technical Art team, supporting Motion Capture, 3D Scanning, and performance acquisition pipelines. You do not need deep prior Capture-specific experience but you bring pipeline fluency and an understanding of how data flows across tools, sites, and teams. You will guide a small group of Technical Artists, providing both direct leadership and hands-on technical contributions.

In your role, you'll report to a Senior Technical Art Director to partner with TADs, Capture Supervisors, Animation, Rigging, Engineering, and global EA Create groups. You'll work with them to maintain efficient, scalable, and well-documented pipelines for delivering high-value capture data.

This is a full time hybrid role.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Capture Technical Art team

• Develop and extend production tools and codebases

• Oversee data quality, flow, and pipeline stability across Capture

• Partner with Capture leadership to prioritize future development

• Work with external partners to coordinate tool development and integration

• Collaborate with IT partners to support infrastructure

• Collaborate with other Technical Art leaders

• Identify and address pipeline inefficiencies

• Document workflows, processes, and tool usage

• Mentor more junior team members

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Pipeline Engineering or Technical Artist roles

• Expertise in Python development for production systems, APIs, and automation

• Expertise with GitLab CI/CD pipeline design, implementation, and optimization

• Expertise building and maintaining large-scale data processing systems

• Experience with distributed computing, batch processing APIs, and compute farm orchestration

• Experience managing technical teams

• Experience with asset processing and content validation

• Experience collaborating with IT, engineering, and external partners

• Knowledge of containerization (Docker) 

• Familiarity with modern DCCs (Maya, MotionBuilder, Houdini, Blender, etc.)

Bonus:

• Familiarity with motion capture or 3D scanning workflows

• Experience with Perforce

• Experience with PySide

• Knowledge of Confluence, Jira, Coda, or similar production tools

• Knowledge of AI for code development

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs). 

PAY RANGES

In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

In British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.