Senior Gameplay Software Engineer - EA SPORTS™ UFC
Electronic Arts2 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and refine high-performance gameplay systems for player controls, combat logic, animation state machines, physics interactions, and spatial AI.
- Collaborate with designers, animators, audio engineers, producers, and technical leaders to translate creative concepts into responsive gameplay mechanics.
- Contribute to engine capabilities, multithreaded architecture, memory management, network synchronization, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Integrate emerging AI techniques and automated workflows into development pipelines.
- Build and maintain developer-facing tools, editors, and performance profiling utilities.
- Tune and polish gameplay for responsiveness, impact clarity, frame accuracy, and player satisfaction.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and promote software engineering best practices and technical excellence.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in video game development, with shipped titles or core gameplay systems work.
- Advanced proficiency in C++ and object-oriented software design.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, 3D mathematics, physics, linear algebra, vector math, and quaternions.
- Deep experience with debugging, memory optimization, multithreading, and performance profiling.
- Hands-on experience developing gameplay systems such as combat mechanics, player controllers, animation trees or IK, physics, or game AI.
- Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to technical and non-technical collaborators.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X|S, dynamic animation, procedural movement, physics-driven hit reactions, Perforce, or Git is preferred.
Benefits
- British Columbia compensation range is CAD 141,400–204,400 per year, depending on location.
- Benefits include three weeks of vacation to start, 10 sick days per year, parental and adoption leave top-up, extended health, dental and vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and a retirement plan for regular full-time employees.
- Some roles may be eligible for bonuses and other incentive programs.
- Additional EA benefits may include healthcare coverage, mental wellbeing support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, complimentary games, and career and community wellness programs.
About Electronic Arts
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