UI / Frontend Technical Artist - EA Sports NHL

*12 month temporary position - requiring a hybrid onsite presence in our Burnaby office*

EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in entertainment - connecting hundreds of millions around the world to the sports they love through a portfolio of industry-leading video games.

EA SPORTS NHL has revolutionized sports gaming for millions of players worldwide. We’ve pioneered award-winning creative technology and experiences to connect players to the speed, skill, and heart of the NHL. The EA SPORTS NHL franchise is founded on passion and new ideas. Located in Vancouver, British Columbia, the team is composed of diverse talent dedicated to creating on-ice experiences that connect gamers around the world through play. If you're a creative pioneer with a passion for your craft, this will be more than a job. It’ll be what you love. 

The NHL Technical Art Team helps push visual boundaries and experiences for our players. We invest in future technologies, shared tooling, and production workflows. We combine creativity and imagination with technical expertise. We are a diverse group that encourages team members to bring their unique perspectives and expertise to work every day. 

Your Responsibilities:

As a UI / Frontend Technical Artist you will play a critical role in advancing how our teams deliver world-class user interfaces. Reporting to the Technical Art Director, you will bridge the gap between creative vision and technical execution, supporting the delivery of frontend features at scale, ensuring our user interfaces remain fluid, responsive, beautiful, and performant across all our target platforms. Through close collaboration with UI engineers, layout designers, and art leads, you will own the health of the UI asset pipeline, develop modern workflows and custom artist-facing tools that guarantee consistency, reliability and speed for our UI team.

Candidates may come from Art, Design, Mathematics, Engineering, or Computer Science, but you must be comfortable operating at the intersection of creativity and technology. Most importantly, you bring a genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies like Generative AI and Machine Learning and their transformative capabilities.

 Your Qualifications:

• At least 5+ years of games production experience

• A bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a related field.

• Effective at communicating with different audiences: artists, engineers, managers.

• Familiar with DCC tools like Photoshop, Cinema4D, and Figma.

• Proficient in visual (e.g. Shader Graphs, Blueprints) or textual (Python, C#) scripting/programming (C++ is a bonus but is not required)

• Proficient with graphics debuggers/profilers (PIX, RenderDoc) and memory/runtime resource management

• A solutions-provider, especially as it pertains to testing and debugging technical issues.

• Experience with asset optimization challenges/techniques.

• A willingness to jump into the unknown and solve new problems to resolve technical challenges and limitations.

• Proficiency with commercial game engines/editors like Unity/Unreal and their UI Systems is a plus.

• Experience in utilizing AI-assisted development tools (e.g. coding agents) to rapid prototype, accelerate execution and automate workflows, with the ability to critically review and validate AI-generated code.

• A Passion for Games!