Electronic Arts

Founded in 2010, Respawn was created with the philosophy that when accomplished people have creative freedom, they'll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected.

Respawn Entertainment is the Academy Award-winning studio behind critically acclaimed multi-platform games Apex Legends, Titanfall, Titanfall 2, Star Wars™ Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars™ Jedi: Survivor, and Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond. As a collective of creative developers, we have launched some of the industry's most critically and commercially successful games. We love what we do and want to share our passion with players worldwide.

Join us for the opportunity to create groundbreaking games with some of the best developer talents in the industry.

Reporting to a Principal Technical Director you will provide Leadership and Technical Direction:

Leadership Responsibilities

• Distill Apex and Respawn goals into tools, pipelines, and workflows team goals and achieve them.

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to tools engineers.

• Balance technical and project long-term goals and vision.

• Partner with other disciplines on requirements, priorities and planning.

• Guide a partner-centric engineering culture of empowering content creators.

• Collaborate on performance management, retention & hiring.

• Collaborate with other technical directors on Apex's short and long-term technical direction.

• Collaborate with technical art directors to partner on efforts in the tools and technical art spaces.

Technical Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for Apex tools engineering.

• Promote good engineering practices and ensure compliance with standards.

• Ensure code quality, performance, usability, and stability of tools, workflows, and pipelines.

• Approve technical design documents and provide code and script review feedback.

• Manage technical dependencies and risks.

• Manage technical partnerships within Apex and across Respawn/EA.

• Spend roughly 80% of time on strategic and leadership work with 20% of your time devoted to hands on tool development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with an emphasis on tools/pipelines.

• Shipped multiplayer AAA titles on multiple generations of hardware platforms.

• Experience working on large-scale Live Services title.

• 5+ years of leadership experience.

• Experience with large code bases, legacy code bases, industry standard tool sets and workflows.

• Advanced C/C++ skills.

• C# skills.