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, College Football, FC soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

A Senior Gameplay Engineer at EA SPORTS is a versatile generalist responsible for designing and implementing complex gameplay AI and animation systems for sports games.  You will report to a Group Technical Director and work closely in collaboration with gameplay creative directors, animators and designers to bring life-like gameplay simulations to millions gamers.  In this role, you will contribute individually while also leading small teams of developers to deliver larger systems and initiatives.

Your Responsibilities

• Provide input and feedback to inform the direction of the gameplay feature roadmap.

• Design and implement complex gameplay, A.I., and animation systems.

• Lead small teams of developers for end-to-end delivery of new and iterative features.

• Incorporate and adapt existing engine libraries to the codebase.

• Prototype new ideas and mechanics to improve designs and feature quality.

• Design and document technical designs for Gameplay systems.

• Develop tools and workflows to produce new game features.

• Work with a proprietary engine to develop shareable, re-usable code.

• Mentor and grow junior engineers on the gameplay team.

Your Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience leading and implementing complex sports gameplay simulations in C++ for AAA games.

• Experience implementing solutions that solve for the complexities that come with simulating real world character movement and locomotion in sports games.

• Experience implementing A.I. system architecture, character control, path finding, multiplayer, and animation systems.

• Strong understanding of multi-threaded architectures and synchronization principles.

• Excellent debugging experience using tools to help debug.

• Understanding of memory and performance implications of Gameplay systems & algorithms and experience optimizing for them.

• Familiar with scripting languages (Python, Lua, Ruby) and interpreted languages. (C#, Java)

• Knowledge in a second field, such as physics or mathematics.

• Familiar with basic game development technologies such as Perforce, Visual Studio.