Gameplay Engineer - American Football

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

We are looking for a Software Engineer to develop in-game AI behaviors and player mechanics, to work with our gameplay team to improve and rework existing AI and animation systems.

In this position you will work side-by-side with Game Designers and Animators. You will take part in the full game creation process from design and architecture, writing technical documentation, code implementation, debugging and tuning gameplay behaviors and ensuring owned features are shipped under performance, memory and load time budgets.

This position will be Hybrid/Onsite in Orlando, FL.

Requirements

• Build and maintain gameplay systems in C/C++.
• Ability to implement gameplay systems from existing technical designs.
• Make recommendations to improve Design/Animation tools and pipelines, and make content creator workflows more efficient.
• Work closely with the design and content teams to build AI character behaviors and interactions.
• Debug, tune and refine existing functionalities in game.

Qualifications

• Passion for making and playing games.
• Robust solid C/C++ skills with ability to write clear, maintainable, portable code.
• Excellent math skills with an emphasis on 3D math.
• Experience with large code bases and optimizing code, data, and bandwidth to improve both memory consumption and execution speed.
• Console programming experience on a multiplayer game.
• Motivated, self-driven and energetic team player with a very strong work ethic and cooperative attitude