Principal Rendering Technical Artist (Apex Legends)

Role Overview

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.

What You Will Do

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.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role is an opportunity to participate in dedicated, long term R&D initiatives. As a Principal you will have broad agency to guide and deliver solutions as you see fit.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Paid time off (3 weeks per year to start)
• 80 hours per year of sick time
• 16 paid company holidays per year
• 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k)
• Bonus and equity