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.

As an Animation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing 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 fast paced, low input latency, sim-driven, contact sports game.

Your Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement animation strategies for time sensitive gameplay mechanics in a responsive, action oriented multiplayer game in collaboration with engineers, animators, and designers.

• Work with engineering teams to identify and implement core animation systems and gameplay features.

• Work directly with animators to debug and optimize animation workflows.

• 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

• 8+ years experience in software development with a strong C++ focus and proficiency in C#.

• Shipped action games as a key 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.

• Pragmatic approach to problem solving.

• Experience with Visual Studio and knowledge of the debugging tools and profilers.

Bonus:

• Experience with motion matching.
• Experience with 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 with developing large scale multiplayer games.
• Experience with Frostbite, Unreal or Unity.