Electronic Arts

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling video game 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, Football Club, NHL® hockey, EA SPORTS UFC and others!

Our Tiburon Studio develops the EA SPORTS Madden NFL and EA SPORTS College Football games which are immersive, simulation-based, authentic interactive experiences. The Tiburon Innovation and Engine (TIE) team empowers our American Football teams to deliver the best player experiences by: accelerating investment in future-facing initiatives, improving tools and workflows for our developers, upgrading our game engine, and providing game team support. We are looking for an individual to work with our team to enhance our core technology and bring their unique perspectives and expertise to work every day.

Reporting to a Technical Director, you will collaborate with other TIE team personnel to: integrate the latest releases of the Frostbite engine, work on technical initiatives to strengthen our core technologies, improve tools and workflows to enhance development efficiency, and provide support to the game teams. This role sits at the heart of our technical ecosystem. Your work will directly influence the stability, scalability, and evolution of our engine technology powering millions of players worldwide.

This is a hybrid position that will require you to work remotely and onsite at our Orlando EA Tiburon Studio location.

Your Responsibilities:

• Create, modify, and have technical ownership of tools to optimize engine upgrades and development efficiency

• Drive technical design discussions related to development efficiency

• Ensure and maintain stability of the engine during integrations and upgrades to provide seamless delivery to our game teams

• Merge complex multi-branch code and data integrations across development streams

• Debug and resolve issues in our game titles and game engine

• Update or refactor game code to use new game engine APIs

• Communicate priorities with partner teams

• Clearly communicate technical risks and integration challenges to central and partner teams

• Propose, document, and implement changes to improve team processes and the engine adoption strategy

• Provide subject matter expertise, guidance, and improvements on how to use Frostbite features and their advantages

Your qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, or 5+ years with an advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline relevant to software development.

• 5+ years of experience with the C++ language, best practices, and architectural considerations

• 2+ years of experience with the C# language, best practices, and architectural considerations

• 3+ years of experience with troubleshooting and debugging large-scale C++ codebases (multi-threaded systems, memory management, performance analysis, build systems, continuous integration pipelines)

• Experience with realtime systems

• Proficient knowledge of version control concepts and best practices

• Hands-on code development and integration experience

• Quickly ramp up on an existing codebase

• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and proactively re-prioritize work as needed

• Communicate with people across development team ranks, disciplines, and skills

• Provide technical guidance and adapt quickly to evolving codebases and technical challenges

Bonus:

• Experience with Game Engines

• Experience with Frostbite

• Familiarity with Perforce

• Familiarity with WPF