Senior Technical Artist: Pipelines & Real-Time Rendering

Electronic Arts; Orlando (FL); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation and benefits package

On-site hybrid work

Professional development

Job summary

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to bridge creative vision and technical execution. You will design scalable pipelines, optimize real-time performance, and develop workflows for characters, environments, lighting, and VFX.

You’ll report to a Technical Art Director and mentor junior artists while collaborating with Rendering Engineers, Art Directors, and Tools Developers. The role emphasizes leadership, prototyping new rendering techniques, and cross‑disciplinary problem

Qualifications

• 6+ years in video game production or visual effects.
• 3+ years in a Technical Art role.
• Deep engine experience (Unreal/Unity or AAA engines) with rendering knowledge.
• Scripting in Python; familiarity with shaders or visual shader graphs.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable art pipelines and content integration workflows.
• Lead runtime performance profiling across hardware generations.
• Integrate procedural workflows and complex shaders into the engine.
• Collaborate with artists and software engineers to define requirements.
• Mentor junior technical artists and standardize workflows.
• Prototype new rendering techniques and digital asset workflows.

Skills

Senior Technical Artist

Unreal Engine

Unity

Maya

Houdini

Python

C++

Shaders

Performance Profiling

Communication

Tools

Maya

Houdini

Job description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Technical Artist to bridge creative vision and technical execution. You will design scalable pipelines, optimize real-time performance, and develop workflows for characters, environments, lighting, and VFX.

You’ll report to a Technical Art Director and mentor junior artists while collaborating with Rendering Engineers, Art Directors, and Tools Developers. The role emphasizes leadership, prototyping new rendering techniques, and cross‑disciplinary problem