Technical Director - American Football

Requisition Number: 186657

Position Title: Technical Director II

External Description:

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, EA Sports FC soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC.

We’re looking for you to help shape the technical foundation for an exciting American Football project, as well as to provide leadership and oversight to a talented and growing team of game developers.

*This position will require a hybrid onsite presence*

Reporting to the Franchise Technical Director, you will:

• Work with studio leadership to define and execute strategic goals and milestones, establish best practices, and promote the core development values of the engineering team.
• Work with production staff, directors, and other leads to establish engineering tasks and manage schedule requirements.
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance for engineers.
• Guide and grow engineering team-leads into successful people managers.
• Review completed engineering tasks in collaboration with the Studio Director, the production staff, and other leads.
• Collaborate to ensure that technology interests and policies are represented and maintained through the course of development, and that future technology is being developed on schedule.
• Perform research to acquire new knowledge necessary to perform assigned tasks and maintain the technological evolution of the project.
• Maintain familiarity with Tiburon and EA's current game designs and with new technologies across the game industry in multiple genres.

You have:

• 15+ years of gameplay software engineering experience.  
• Shipped multiplayer AAA titles on multiple generations of hardware platforms. 
• Experience working on large-scale live services titles. 
• 10+ years of leadership & people management experience.  
• Experience with large code base, gameplay mechanics, networking, and optimization. 
• Advanced C/C++ skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Bonus

• Experience developing an MMO.

 

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Community / Marketing Title: Technical Director - American Football

Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc. es una empresa de software de entretenimiento interactivo líder a nivel mundial. EA distribuye juegos, contenido y servicios en línea para consolas, ordenadores personales, teléfonos móviles y tabletas conectados a Internet.

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Can this position be remote?: 0

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EA ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Nuestras decisiones de empleo se hacen independientemente de raza, color, nacionalidad, ascendencia, sexo, género, identidad o expresión de género, orientación sexual, edad, información genética, religión, discapacidad, condición médica, embarazo o estado civil, familiar o de veterano. EA también lleva a cabo ajustes de espacios de trabajo para individuos cualificados con discapacidades, de acuerdo con la ley aplicable.