Senior Gameplay Engineer – On-Ice Physics & AI

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 3 weeks per year

Sick time 10 days per year

Parental leave top-up

Extended health/dental/vision

Life and disability insurance

Retirement plan

Bonus programs

Job summary

EA SPORTS NHL team in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Gameplay Engineer to help craft the next generation of on-ice gameplay. You will be a core architect for moment-to-moment hockey experiences, driving skating physics, puck dynamics, player control, body checks, and spatial team AI.

You will collaborate with designers, animators and tech leads to deliver responsive, realistic gameplay while mentoring mid-level and junior engineers and optimising performance for modern consoles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional game development experience and shipping titles or core systems.
• Advanced proficiency in C++ and object-oriented software engineering.
• Strong foundation in 3D math, physics, data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with multi-threaded architecture, memory optimization, and profiling tools.
• Interest or experience with AI tools, automation, and workflow optimizations in game dev.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to explain complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build and optimise core on-ice gameplay systems (movement, skating, stick handling).
• Collaborate with designers, animators, producers and audio engineers to implement gameplay features.
• Write clean, modular C++ code; manage memory, multi-threading and frame-rate optimisations.
• Explore AI techniques, automated testing tools and dynamic behaviour models for on-ice AI.
• Develop internal tools, debug utilities and editor extensions to speed iteration.
• Tune gameplay for responsiveness, transitions, and hit reaction physics; mentor engineers.

Skills

Communication skills

3D math

Physics simulation

Multi-threading

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Perforce

Git

CI pipelines

Job description

EA SPORTS NHL team in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Gameplay Engineer to help craft the next generation of on-ice gameplay. You will be a core architect for moment-to-moment hockey experiences, driving skating physics, puck dynamics, player control, body checks, and spatial team AI.

You will collaborate with designers, animators and tech leads to deliver responsive, realistic gameplay while mentoring mid-level and junior engineers and optimising performance for modern consoles.