About the organization: EA SPORTS is one of the most iconic brands in sports & entertainment with nearly 30 years of innovation, passion, and connection of millions of players across the globe to their favorite sports, teams, and athletes. We are creating a team to build a new unannounced AAA EA SPORTS product across platforms. This is your opportunity to join this new team that will shape the future of interactive entertainment and create the next great EA SPORTS game.
About our team: We are starting a new team composed of a mixture of veterans of EA/EA SPORTS and new talent from across industries. With some of the most valuable sports IP in the world, and the resources EA has to offer, we have access to the capabilities needed to deliver amazing new experiences for an expanded audience of players worldwide.
Rendering Software Engineer is a part of the game creation process. They are involved in architectural design and implementation of rendering technology on multiple platforms. They are working with designers, artists, and other engineers to build complex graphics features – life-like visuals, huge and immersive worlds, and state-of-the-art graphical FX. You will participate in both internal and external graphics conferences to both gain and share knowledge.
Your Responsibilities:
Develop core rendering features, engine components and tools.
Research and implement rendering techniques.
Create reusable and flexible rendering technologies.
Write technical design specifications.
Design, maintains, implements, tests and debugs code, pipelines and other rendering-related sub-components and packages.
Profiles and optimizes rendering modules of a game engine.
Stay up to date with the latest hardware & software changes enhancing the rendering domain.
You will report to the engineering team's manager and work with your peers to render specific tasks.
Your Qualifications:
3+ years' experience with C++ development.
Experience developing graphics techniques and detailed knowledge of graphics hardware.
Math skills including trigonometry, calculus, and linear algebra.
Formal background in rendering with experience that may include shaders, animation, skinning, lighting, special effects, and tool development.
1+ years of experience with Direct 3D, OpenGL or equivalent.
Experience in object-oriented design and implementation.
Knowledge of good software engineering practices.
Understanding of memory management, multiple processor use, and runtime optimization.
Test and debug other engineer's code.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.
Experience shipping at least one title on PC or Console.
Expertise in several of these fields: vertex and pixel shaders including HLSL and FX; terrain or environment rendering; advanced lighting techniques, particle systems, special effects, art pipelines, tool development and game engine architecture.
Working knowledge of DX11 is a significant plus.
About EA
We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers.
We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more.
Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.
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