Senior Technical Artist

Frostbite Labs is a new R&D organization within Electronic Arts whose purpose is to explore new technologies and the creative opportunities that they can enable for our future games. Our areas of research include virtual reality, how we build game worlds, procedural content generation, creating truly realistic characters, and deep learning, i.e. neural networks and other machine learning techniques applied to game AI and game design.

We collaborate with teams all across Electronic Arts such as Battlefield, Mass Effect, Need for Speed, Star Wars and Dragon Age, as well as the Frostbite Engine team and upcoming new games & IPs.

At Frostbite we have a small multi-disciplined team who is dedicated to virtual reality projects and for that team we are now looking for a Senior Technical Artist. Your part as Technical Artist focuses on content pipelines and having an imaginative and explorative mindset, where research and prototyping is key.

Key Responsibilities
- Focus on how content creation is approached from the perspective of VR
- Help establish and develop tools, pipelines and workflows
- Prototype and continuously explore and research new technologies
- Collaborate with the team and set your own direction and objectives
- Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as a tech artist and the AAA industry
- Shipped multiple products and worked with the full production cycle
- An open mind and enjoy researching and trying out new technology
- Experience with collaborating with engine teams
- Some familiarity with shaders and related programming and scripting languages
- Experience with PBR, character creation or real-time global illumination & lighting
- Knowledge in memory/performance work
- Genuine interest in VR and rendering tech
What skills does Frostbite look for?
As a Senior Technical Artist you have a strong drive. This is not just something you put on your CV but also something you practice and people around you notice this in your can do attitude, personal feedback and moonshot-mentality. You know that the best way to get there is by getting others to join your cause. As this is a fairly small team, we expect you to be ready to not only set direction, but also to work hands-on in the projects we facilitate.
Games: When it comes to your creative and technical skills we want to see a proven track record of developing and shipping AAA games. We think that you have been credited with developing one or many prominent features during your career and that you have experience from or are interested in adding the virtual reality piece to that.
Social: We think that you are an open and curious person who is eager to learn and teach.
What's in it for you?
- We take care of our staff! In addition to a competitive compensation package we will offer you:
- Annual bonus
- EA stocks
- Flexible work times
- Occupational pension
- 10 free EA games per year
- Free massages
- A variety of sports activities and health care allowance.
- We have a collective bargain agreement with Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer.
- We respect and value our employees? personal lives. A good work-life balance is essential to our long term success!