Senior Software Engineer

Requisition Number: 169421

Position Title: Sr Software Engineer I

External Description:

EA SPORTS Madden NFL is the best-selling sports property in U.S. Video game history. Madden NFL is an immersive, simulation-based, authentic NFL interactive experience, empowering fans to play out their NFL fantasy of winning the Super Bowl (and much more). Madden NFL has entertained fans over three decades with more than 130 million lifetime units sold.

Madden NFL is developed at EA’s Tiburon Studio in Orlando, FL, and Madrid, Spain by a team that prides itself on innovation and creative collaboration. We are looking for talent with a passion for sports to create experiences that connect with millions of football fans around the world to grow the love of the sport. 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop in-game animation features including animation tools and pipelines, improving existing animation systems and integrating latest animation technologies from our proprietary engine to our games. In this position you will work side-by-side with Technical Artists, Animators, Designers and other Gameplay Engineers. You will take part in the full game creation process from design and architecture, writing technical documentation, implementation, debugging and polish and tuning gameplay features to ensuring owned features are shipped under performance, memory and load time budgets. 

Requirements 

• Work with the animation team to help develop new animation systems and improve existing ones.
• Integration of new animation technologies from and into the game engine. 
• Full end to end ownership of in-game gameplay features.
• Make recommendations to improve animation tools and pipelines, and make animator workflows more efficient.
• Support animators by debugging animation tools and help unblock them.
• Mentor other engineering team members.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• 7+ years software development experience in the game industry
• Extensive experience with one or more real-time animation middleware (e.g.: Havok Animation, Character Animation in Unreal, Morpheme, Mecanim) or equivalent custom/in-house solutions
• Experience developing or working with animation systems such as blend graphs, real-time IK, animation compression, and/or advanced animation memory management (streaming)
• Self-motivated and energetic team player with a very strong work ethic and cooperative attitude
• Enjoys working daily with animators and technical artists to help craft solutions to complex problems
• Excellent 3D math skills
• Robust programming skills/experience in C++ and C#
• Ability to write clear, maintainable, portable code
• Experience developing games on 5th generation consoles.
• Experience with deterministic animation systems in network games including tracking and fixing Online Desyncs.
• Experience with Motion Matching systems

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Days Open: 13

Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。