Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is looking for high performing students to join our world-class internship experience. Summer 2026 will be better than ever as we bring all interns together on-site for orientation week and prep students for the future ways of work by offering remote and hybrid opportunities depending on your location. For more information about our Emerging Talent Program, visit https://www.ea.com/careers/interns-and-university-graduates

SEED is a pioneering group within Electronic Arts that combines creativity with applied research. We explore, build, and help define the future of interactive entertainment.

We exist at EA to deliver and foster inspiring innovation for our games and our players. We do this through exploration, research, prototypes, and never-ending curiosity. We collaborate with game teams and industry partners and also publish our research within our industry and to the public. We pursue long-term applied research yet stay relevant to the present by delivering artifacts along the way to game teams and technology groups inside EA. Some of our research includes bringing digital characters to life, using machine learning for game AI and content creation, and developing novel real-time graphics & physics techniques.

We are looking for a PhD Intern to help explore the potential of Machine Learning research in World Models for video games. The intern will focus on discovering how unique gameplay data can be used to push new kinds of interactions through World Models. 

As a PhD Intern, you will:

• Perform a state-of-the-art study

• Test and evaluate recent papers and open-source projects

• Identify and define novel approaches and methods

• Plan and build a proof-of-concept demonstration

• Write a technical report and share insights by giving presentations to the team

As a diverse team with solid goals, we provide autonomy and true influence to each member of SEED. We are looking for an open and curious person who gets a kick out of taking new ideas, investigating them, and adapting their application to games. You desire to explore new areas of game development—someone who is passionate, creative, communicative, and invested.

Qualifications

• Ongoing Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, or any other relevant field. 

• Familiarity with World Models and their ML techniques.

• General understanding of basic principles of game engines and/or game programming. 

• You care about video games as a medium. 

If you want to be part of—and work with—some of the most incredible people in the field, then SEED is your team!

To learn more about SEED and our impactful work, check out https://seed.ea.com/

You must be available for a full-time paid internship in the summer of 2026.

At this time, we are considering PhD students who will be enrolled in an accredited degree program in the summer of 2026, slated to graduate no earlier than December 2026. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis during the 8 month internship. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Please ensure that your graduation date is visible on your resume.