VFX Artist II

Electronic Arts • Vancouver, BC

18h • CA$92,900 - CA$129,200 • Hybrid

About The Position

Electronic Arts’ Respawn Entertainment is hiring a VFX Artist to support the Apex Legends content creation team. The role creates and implements real-time visual effects that bring Legends, weapons, and seasonal moments to life across the live-service game. Reporting to the VFX Director, the artist collaborates with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to deliver polished, performant, game-ready effects while maintaining gameplay readability and the Apex visual language. The role is based in Vancouver, Los Angeles, or Madison and follows a hybrid work model.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of professional experience as a real-time VFX artist in the games industry.
• Ability to create high-quality real-time game VFX, supported by a portfolio of shipped in-game work.
• Proficiency with relevant DCC tools such as Maya, Houdini, Photoshop, or Substance Designer.
• Experience implementing work within a game engine or proprietary toolset.
• Passion for making and playing games.
• Experience with live-service or seasonal content cycles.
• A shipped AAA game credit.

Nice To Haves

• Background in first-person shooters, battle royale, or competitive multiplayer games.

Responsibilities

• Create and implement real-time VFX for Legend abilities, weapons, seasonal content, environmental moments, and gameplay events across Apex Legends.
• Create effects that add energy, impact, and visual identity to seasonal content, new characters, weapon releases, and limited-time events.
• Use timing, shape, motion, and color to support gameplay clarity and reinforce the Apex visual language.
• Coordinate with Art, Design, Animation, and Engineering to ensure VFX meet the quality bar and vision for each content area.
• Solve VFX-related problems and help fix bugs, including performance and memory-budget issues, across the content pipeline.
• Help evolve Apex Legends’ visual language by delivering consistent, polished, game-ready effects each season.

Benefits

• United States benefits for regular full-time employees include paid time off (three weeks per year to start), 80 hours of sick time per year, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks of paid time off to bond with a baby, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and a 401(k).
• Canada benefits for regular full-time employees include vacation (three weeks per year to start), 10 sick days per year, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity and four weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and a retirement plan.
• Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed