The Technical Artist - Character reports to the Art Director and partners with Production and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality player and character visuals. This role focuses on character rendering, shaders, character scanning workflows, and animation integration to support realistic and performant character experiences.

Responsibilities

Partner with Character Artists, Animators, and Engineers to deliver high-quality player and character content.
Develop and optimize character shaders, materials, skin rendering, hair rendering, and visual effects within the game engine.
Support character scanning workflows, including scan processing, asset integration, and visual quality validation.
Collaborate with Animation teams on character setup, deformation quality, motion capture integration, and runtime implementation.
Improve character production pipelines, tools, and workflows to increase efficiency and content quality.
Troubleshoot character rendering, animation, and asset integration issues throughout development.
Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted workflows, to improve character creation and production efficiency.

Qualifications

3+ years of Technical Artist experience in game development.
Strong understanding of character art production pipelines and real-time character rendering.
Experience creating and optimizing character shaders, materials, and rendering workflows.
Experience working with game engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
Proficiency in Python, Lua, or similar scripting languages.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
Effective communication and collaboration skills across Art and Engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience shipping AAA, mobile, or live service games.
Experience supporting facial scanning, photogrammetry, or digital human workflows.
Experience working with facial rigs, character rigging, skinning, or deformation systems.
Experience integrating motion capture data and animation systems into production pipelines.
Knowledge of player likeness creation and character authenticity workflows.
Familiarity with AI-assisted content creation, automation, or production workflows.
Passion for football games and player presentation.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.