Advanced Game Software Engineer - Advanced Technology Group

About the Role

The Advanced Technology Group is part of the EA SPORTS Technology organisation, focusing on identifying and creating new, scalable technologies for game teams. It collaborates with game teams, central art teams, and the Frostbite engine team, with technologies applicable to many engines, environments, and hardware platforms. The Senior Generalist Software Engineer will work on strategic multi-year projects focused on user-generated experiences, improved creation pipelines and runtime functionality, both internal and player facing, for all EA SPORTS titles. The role participates in the game creation process, including architectural design, implementation, and debugging on multiple platforms, collaborating with designers, artists, and other engineers across domains such as rendering, gameplay, audio, user interface, online, physics, databases, and tools. The role reports to the team's manager and works with peers on developing the game's foundation layer.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement feature's core logic, game flows, and screens/components.
• Develop technical solutions covering main areas of game development technologies, game features, and optimisations of frame-rate and load-times.
• Provide feedback, guidance, and solutions for improvement and optimisations.
• Integrate and develop technologies into the game with other domain owners.
• Analyse impact of the above mentioned metrics throughout the development cycle.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience
• 6+ years of experience in C++ software development
• Experience in game engines (Unreal, Unity, Frostbite, or other proprietary)
• Proficiency in integrating and maintaining large-scale systems covering multiple domains
• Experience with 3rd party APIs
• Skills debugging complex applications
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience
• Experience with one of the following: XBOX and PlayStation platforms; Mobile, PC, or Cloud-based games; graphics libraries such as DirectX, OpenGL, or Metal

Preferred Skills

• Understanding of memory management, multithreaded job system, run-time optimization, and job-based architectures
• Knowledge of assembler, scripting languages (Python, Lua), and C
• Strong understanding of geometry, linear algebra, calculus, and physics as they pertain to transformations and motions in 3D space

Benefits & Perks

• 3 weeks of vacation per year to start
• 10 days of sick time per year
• Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when welcoming a new child (12 weeks for maternity, 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave)
• Extended health/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Retirement plan for regular full-time employees
• Certain roles may be eligible for bonus and other incentive programs

About the Company

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.