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.

Reporting to a Senior Engineering Manager, as a Senior Animation Engineer, you will design and implement technical animation solutions to support networked game mechanics for a fast-paced, action oriented multiplayer sports game. You will be a key contributor in solving the animation challenges represented by a low input latency, sim-driven, contact sports game.

Your Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement animation strategies for time sensitive gameplay mechanics in a responsive, multiplayer game in collaboration with engineers, animators, and designers.
• Work with engineering teams to implement core animation systems and gameplay features.
• Work directly with animators to debug and improve animation workflows.
• Share domain knowledge and mentor engineers within their team.
• Design, implement and document technology and strategies to help develop games mechanics in a multiplayer environment by other team members.
• Oversee features and collaborate with team members to solve problems.

Your Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in software development with a C++ focus and proficiency in C#.
• Shipped action games as an important contributor in animation pipelines and associated systems, such as: melee combat, sports or sports adjacent.
• Familiarity with runtime inverse-kinematic systems.
• Experience developing in and debugging multi-threaded/concurrent/simultaneous multiplayer architectures.
• Experience with Visual Studio and knowledge of the debugging tools and profilers.

Bonus:

• Experience with motion matching.
• Experience using animation as a latency hiding technique in a multiplayer game.
• 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 developing large-scale multiplayer games.
• Experience with Frostbite, Unreal or Unity.

Ceci ne s’applique pas au Québec. 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS 

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs). 

PAY RANGES

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria)
  • $138,700 - $199,900 CAD

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco)
  • $160,600 - $249,300 USD

• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs)
  • $160,600 - $205,500 USD

• Jersey City, NJ
  • $160,600 - $242,600 USD

• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo)
  • $149,200 - $242,600 USD

• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane)
  • $149,200 - $205,500 USD

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. For British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.