Cinematic Technical Designer

Orlando, United States

General Information

Locations: Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Role ID

210976

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

Marketing

Work Model

Hybrid

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

EA Experiences

Our EA Experiences group is dedicated to ensuring great experiences for our growing communities centered around our world-renowned brands, including fan-favorites like Apex, Battlefield, EA SPORTS FC, Madden NFL and The Sims, just to name a few. We're a multi-functional group, with world-class expertise building fandoms, driving interactive storytelling, and positioning our franchises at the center of the broader entertainment ecosystem. We inspire, connect, and engage fans through culturally relevant content, intentionally architected journeys across channels, and meaningful fan care. Our goal is to provide valuable, easy experiences that fans love – in our games, around our games, and through innovative adjacent experiences to grow and enrich how fans experience EA as we shape the future of entertainment.

Fan Growth

EA’s Fan Growth organization with EA Experiences, is responsible for elevating the experiences customers get from our entertainment and maximizing their fun. We’re obsessed with the experiences our fans have with EA. We value people who bring new ideas and perspectives to make Fan Growth a great place to be and be from. We celebrate inclusion. It’s just as important for us to create great experiences for our people as for our players. We’re looking for people who will show up excited to work and ready for fun.

The Cinematic Tech Designer is a game engine specialist who designs and implements in-engine content production workflows to maximize both creativity and productivity for cinematic artists. This work includes importing, manipulating, and preparing 3D assets such as characters, scenery, cameras, animation, lights, VFX, and rendering parameters towards production-ready environments where artists can fully focus on executing their creative work rather than dealing with technicalities. This position collaborates closely with cinematic artists as well as technical artists and developers to ensure our marketing assets are efficiently delivered to the highest quality possible.

This is a hybrid role with 3 days a week in office. You will report to the Sr. Technology Lead in the Marketing Content Production Craft team.

Responsibilities:

Setting up cinematic shot layouts, lookdev scenes, and reusable prefabs on 3D asset pipelines.
Improving existing node-based visual scripting logic for game entities and rendering processes, as well as designing and implementing new processes when needed.
Understanding DCC/real-time production pipelines and how to manage different asset types.
Adapting to artistic and technical constraints to provide efficient workflow solutions for 3D cinematic artists on a per project basis.
Identifying and diagnosing game engine technical issues and pipeline inefficiencies and applying the required knowledge to implement solutions to those.
Providing hands-on support to artists and engineers regarding cinematic pipeline and game engine workflows, asset performance and validation.
Assessing technical creative processes and identifying opportunities for tool improvements.
Collaborating with partner teams to solve technical challenges and share best practices.
Writing technical documentation and user guides about content production workflows.
Contributing to general cinematic content production to achieve the final creative vision as set forward by Art/Creative Direction.

Qualifications:

3+ years of professional experience in a digital art content creation pipeline, within the video game or film/tv industry with a focus on cinematics.
Experience with real-time game engine workflows (Frostbite, Unreal, Unity, or similar) and the technical hurdles and limitations associated.
Familiarity with Digital Content Creation (DCC) 3D tools such as Maya, Motion Builder, and Houdini with a focus on resolving asset pipeline issues.
Experience with visual node-based scripting systems
Basic knowledge of any high-level coding language (Python, C#, mel scripting)
Experience with version control systems such as Perforce, Git, or Shotgrid (Flow Production Tracking).

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.

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