Electronic Arts creates superior entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story. As a Principal Technical Artist, you will operate at the crossroads of art and technology, working closely with scientists, engineers, and designers to define the future of game world creation using advanced AI technologies.
You will reimagine and implement how content is created, how worlds are built, and how experiences are made. Bridging the gap between research and development, you will help transform cutting-edge ideas into tangible proof of concepts and demonstrations.
As a Principal Technical Artist, you will:
- Work with other developers to design novel technologies that bring game worlds to life, including developing new approaches to enable art for game worlds at scale, quality, and for anyone to create.
- Bring new ideas, discuss, and implement solutions to some of the most complex video game content creation challenges to create differentiation for EA.
- Collaborate with other developers where your expertise will improve the visual quality of the work of everyone.
- Participate in team efforts to create demos that showcase our work in its best light.
- Partner closely with Art Direction to translate creative goals into practical technical solutions while preserving the intended visual quality and style.
- Develop tools and workflows that help everyone to make art, iterate faster and make Neural Rendering technologies more controllable and useful.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated expertise in AAA game development (15+ years) with shipped titles on consoles or PC, alongside proficiency in major engines such as Unreal, Unity, or proprietary.
- Comprehensive, end-to-end command of content production pipelines for AAA titles.
- Strong artistic sensibility and an eye for high visual quality.
- Familiarity with scripting languages and compiled programming languages.
- Understanding of console and PC hardware architectures, encompassing optimization strategies, performance profiling, and hardware limitations.
- Practical experience utilizing AI tools like Claude Code.
- Providing a portfolio, demo reel, or examples showing accomplished relevant technical artwork is highly preferred.
