Electronic Arts

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

The Gameplay Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing networked game mechanics and technology to support those mechanics for a fast paced, action oriented multiplayer sports game. You will be a key contributor in solving the multiplayer challenges represented by a fast paced, low input latency, responsive, contact sports game.

Your Responsibilities:

• Implement strategies for time sensitive gameplay mechanics in a responsive, action oriented multiplayer game in collaboration with engineers, designers and artists.
• Work with engineering teams to identify and implement core real time networking systems and gameplay features.
• Actively share domain knowledge, teach and mentor engineers within their team.
• Design, implement and document technology and strategies to facilitate the development of games mechanics in a multiplayer environment by other team members.
• Own features and collaborate with team members to solve problems efficiently.

Your Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in software development with a strong C++ focus.
• Shipped multiplayer action games as a key contributor in networked game mechanics and technology, such as: shooters, melee combat, sports or sports adjacent.
• You understand the tradeoffs between the various approaches of latency mitigation in multiplayer games, and their applications and shortcomings.
• Advanced debugging skills applicable to client/server multiplayer games.
• Experience developing in and debugging multi-threaded/concurrent architectures.
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Experience with Visual Studio and knowledge of the debugging tools.

Pluses:

• Shipped fast paced multiplayer melee combat game or similar.
• Experience with network architecture of MMO games.
• Experience working with Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo game consoles.
• Experience working with iOS and Android.
• Experience with developing large scale multiplayer games.
• Experience with Frostbite, Unreal or Unity.