Electronic Arts

Frostbite is EA’s proprietary game engine that comes equipped with tons of tools and technologies designed to build incredible games. Our in-house engine offers the unique ability to adapt to each game while working hand-in-hand to prioritize what to build.  Our goal is to empower creators all over the world to bring their best ideas to life by creating an engine that amplifies innovation across every discipline. 

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Electronic Arts Inc. is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment. EA delivers games, content and online services for consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.

What does a Senior Technical Artist do?

As a Senior Technical Artist, you will report to the Frostbite Technical Art lead. As a part of the Frostbite Technical Art team, specializing in Production Systems, you will help make our development process more creator-centric by serving as a link between engineers and game creators.

What we are looking for

You are a technical artist experienced in content creation, tool development for content creators, and setting up functionality in game engines. You are passionate about improving content creation workflows in game engines by developing tools, automation, and validations. Your technical art experience includes using Python, or similar scripting languages, visual scripting (node-base), and you enjoy working across multiple feature domains to build the best creator experience in Frostbite.

Your expertise in navigating the challenges of content creation and game engines will help us push the boundaries of the latest tools and workflows released by Frostbite to game teams.

Who You Are:

• At least 6+ years of game/film production experience. You have completed more than 2 AAA games/movies.

• Experience helping others achieve their best through game development tools.

• Experience with a diversity of content creation tools within a game engine (unity, unreal, etc).

• Expert knowledge of scripting/programming in python or other languages.

• Proficient knowledge of 2D and 3D DCC tools (such as Photoshop and Maya).

• A willingness to jump into the unknown and solve new problems and to resolve technical challenges and limitations facing content creators

• Effective at communicating with different audiences.

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). BASE SALARY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $107,600 - $147,100 CAD

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.