Our studio is committed to inspiring the world to play, delivering immersive experiences, and promoting a diverse, inclusive, and positive culture. You will guide the development of rendering workflows and mentor others, making a real impact on our iconic franchise.

Responsibilities: Implement, and maintain high-quality shaders for our proprietary engine and 3ds Max, improving visual fidelity across characters, environments, and vehicles. Collaborate with rendering engineers and artists to prototype and integrate new visual features, ensuring consistency and performance across all asset types. Support us by debugging rendering issues, refining material setups, and ensuring visual parity between DCC tools and in-engine results. Mentor artists and junior technical artists, sharing your expertise in shader creation and rendering workflows to help us grow our team's capabilities.

Required Qualifications: 5+ years of experience with a digital content creation package such as 3ds Max or Maya, including asset integration for real-time projects. Experience writing, debugging, and improving shaders using HLSL (or GLSL) for game engines and DCC tools. Solid understanding of real-time rendering principles, including PBR workflows, lighting models, and post-processing, demonstrated in shipped game titles or equivalent projects. Basic scripting knowledge in Python or MAXScript, with experience supporting workflow automation and material authoring using Substance Painter/Designer.

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We are looking for a Principal Technical Artist - Rendering to join our Apex Legends team to help design and deliver future-forward rendering and content creation capabilities. As a Principal Technical Artist on the project, you will be working within a multidisciplinary R&D group specifically focused on shaders, lighting, and asset authoring improvements. Our ideal candidate is not just an expert in their technical craft, but is an accomplished project manager who can pull together an initiative, drive its implementation, and carry it across the finish line into production.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and deliver new solutions that increase efficiency, capabilities, and quality for shaders and lighting across the game.

• Be a champion for technology that meets high performance expectations and technical constraints.

• Test and validate new rendering systems, set best practices, and train content teams on their use.

• Be a champion of high performance and optimization, establishing how to wring the most out of our systems and guiding our content teams with best practices.

• Build partnerships and collaborative efforts between multiple disciplines to achieve successful solutions.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional game development experience.

• Expertise in designing and implementing shaders that satisfy artistic workflows and performance goals.

• High level of proficiency with shader programming in HLSL, GLSL, or similar languages.

• Demonstrated ability to modify or implement shaders directly in a codebase without the use of a graphical editor.

• Broad knowledge of modern real-time lighting techniques and problem spaces, and the ability to understand their impact and ramifications on art pipelines.

• Comfortable working with proprietary technology that ships on a wide range of platforms with performance as a top priority.

• Ability to design scalable solutions that adapt to specific hardware specs, ideally without incurring additional art authoring burden.

• Able to demonstrate a pragmatic approach to cost, risk, and tradeoffs when considering new technology.

Pay Transparency - North America:

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 \\\ British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) \\$141,400 - $204,400 CAD \\\ California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) \\$165,000 - $256,000 USD

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