Who We Are:

EA Create is a collective of content production teams partnering with EA Studios game teams to bring outstanding visuals, audio and technology to life. Our teams comprise of artists, engineers, technicians, designers and development directors. Worldwide, we combine our teams to form a global group of extraordinary individuals fueled by imagination and a unified passion for creating amazing visuals, sound and experiences. We are a diverse team, unified through collaboration, culture and craft.

EA Create Tools & Technology enables creativity by building and supporting tools, pipelines and scalable runtime environments that help content creators take their assets from offline data to rich, runtime game experiences.

The Challenge Ahead:

EA Create Tools and Technology Team is looking for people to help us create a state-of-the-art music authoring and runtime system for use in many, if not all of our upcoming EA titles. This cohesive system will enable our artists to make a compelling, interactive music experience that will drive and complement our games with emotion and flow. With locations and staff across the globe in many different teams and titles our challenge is to create a system that fulfills all their requirements. Taking these requirements and translating them into solid features for implementation will define our music roadmap for our studios for years to come.

Responsibilities:

As a Software Engineer on the team, you will identify global problems, propose solutions, write software and build technologies that help our partner teams be more efficient in music creation pipelines and workflows, with an eye towards common, scalable solutions that work across all groups and titles. The EA Create Tools and Technology team partners with several groups spanning all aspects of audio creation including music, voice over, sounds effects, and engine behaviors to bring immersive audio experiences to our end users.

Partner with the music director and audio team to gather requirements for developing and delivering user-friendly tools, efficient pipelines, and optimal workflows that aid in the development and iteration of game content
Partner with engine developers and content stakeholders to analyze current systems and help develop a roadmap improve the workflows, pipelines, and new runtime features for the next generation of music tools and workflows
Investigate problems within identified spaces, risks and considerations across multiple domains and toolsets, in partnership with Product Owners and customers (i.e. artists and engineers)
Use leading-edge and pioneering concepts and methodologies to improve EA’s technologies
Report to your people manager within our Development Director team, with a dotted line into our technical directors for any concern, risks, and successes of the projects you are on

Qualifications:

Working knowledge in C# development
Expertise of C++ used in medium to large-scale and high-performant projects, with experience in multi-threading and systems programming
3+ years' experience in audio tool development, that may include SFX/music creation tools, audio plugins, audio content pipelines, audio importers/exporters or automated content/data build systems
Experience architecting and developing medium-scale design
Promote code quality through unit-testing, code-review and automation
Experience improving workflow to enhance team productivity
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent training and hands-on experience
Creative mindset with focus on how to improve product quality and team productivity
Experience offering guidance to a creative audience

Nice to Have:

Experience with music production, software development and/or AI
Experience working in game development
Experience with large-scale build systems and concept
Experience with web development
Experience in UI frameworks such as WPF

About EA

At Electronic Arts, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create extraordinary new game experiences for our millions of players everywhere by bringing together talented people that combine creativity, innovation, and passion. We know that our strength lies in the diversity of our people. We immerse our employees into an inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for learning and leading that allow them to do the most impactful and rewarding work of their careers. We put our people first. We provide comprehensive benefit packages with a focus on health and wellbeing to support your needs and help you balance your career and personal life. We provide access to dynamic and collaborative work environments, opportunities to connect and contribute through our Employee Resource Groups, and support for a balanced life with paid time off and maternity and paternity leave, plus free video games and so much more! Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.