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Principal Technical Artist (Apex Legends)

Electronic Arts
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaChatsworth, California, United States of AmericaMadison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Posted 1 month ago
Last seen 1 month ago
Active
full-time
design
$160,600 - $249,300 USD

Job Summary

Shape the future of Apex Legends as a Principal Technical Artist, driving innovative content creation workflows and pipeline development. This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly impact game development, leveraging your technical expertise and project management skills within a creative and collaborative environment.

About this job

Join the Apex Legends team as a Principal Technical Artist to design and deliver future-forward content creation workflows. This role focuses on fielding requests for new workflows, collaborating with stakeholders and engineering to design, build, test, and integrate solutions into the wider art team, and providing ongoing support and maintenance. You will drive significant initiatives, impacting content creation and the overall product.

Requirements

- 8+ years of professional game development experience. - Expertise in designing and implementing tools and workflows from upstream content creation applications to runtime. - High level of proficiency with programming in DCC languages (Python, MEL, C#) and UI frameworks (Qt). - Familiarity with third-party software such as Autodesk Maya and Adobe Creative Cloud suite. - Strong interest in content creation workflows, techniques, and innovation. - Experience building and supporting a large workflow/tool through the ship of a title or season. - Ability to collaborate with end-users to identify challenges and opportunities. - Capability to educate teams on system usage, best practices, and encourage adoption. - Skill in building and driving multi-disciplinary coalitions for cross-organizational solutions. - Proven ability to design, build, and maintain art pipelines and custom tools. - Experience automating the testing and validation of workflows and optimizing slow processes. - Aptitude for learning proprietary systems and making them accessible to others. - Strong troubleshooting skills for complex issues and problem-solving sticky situations. - Ability to help teams transition content to newer workflows and automate content adaptation. - Accomplished project management skills to drive initiatives from design to production.

Benefits & Perks

- Paid time off (3 weeks per year to start). - Sick time (80 hours per year in US, 10 days per year in Canada). - 16 paid company holidays per year (US). - Paid parental leave (10 weeks to bond with baby in US; 12 weeks maternity, 4 weeks parental/adoption in Canada). - Medical, dental, and vision insurance. - Life insurance and disability insurance. - 401(k) retirement plan (US) / Retirement plan (Canada). - Potential for bonus and equity for certain roles. - Holistic benefits programs emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness. - Mental well-being support. - Complimentary games.

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