Software Engineer (Temporary) - Music

Requisition Number: 164955

Position Title: Software Engineer II

External Description:

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

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Company Profile:

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 54

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EEO Employer Verbiage:

About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.