UI / Frontend Technical Artist - EA Sports NHL
Electronic Arts17 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Bridge creative vision and technical execution for frontend UI features across target platforms.
- Own and improve the UI asset pipeline, production workflows, and artist-facing tools.
- Collaborate with UI engineers, layout designers, art leads, artists, engineers, and managers.
- Use scripting and programming to develop workflows, tools, and technical solutions.
- Debug and profile graphics, manage memory and runtime resources, and optimize assets.
- Prototype and automate workflows with AI-assisted development tools while reviewing and validating generated code.
- Resolve new technical challenges and limitations affecting UI production.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of games production experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency with visual or textual scripting/programming, including Shader Graphs, Blueprints, Python, or C#; C++ is a bonus.
- Familiarity with Photoshop, Cinema4D, and Figma.
- Proficiency with graphics debuggers/profilers such as PIX and RenderDoc.
- Experience with memory and runtime resource management and asset optimization techniques.
- Experience using commercial game engines/editors such as Unity or Unreal and their UI systems is a plus.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools, such as coding agents, for rapid prototyping, execution acceleration, and workflow automation.
- Effective communication with artists, engineers, and managers, plus a solutions-oriented approach to testing and debugging.
- Passion for games and curiosity about Generative AI and Machine Learning.
Benefits
- 12-month contract with possibility of longer-term employment.
- Onsite work at EA Vancouver in Burnaby three days per week, Tuesday through Thursday.
- Three weeks of vacation per year to start in Canada.
- Ten days of sick time per year.
- Extended health, dental, and vision coverage and basic life insurance.
- Additional EA benefits may include healthcare, mental-wellbeing support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, and complimentary games.
About Electronic Arts
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