Senior Research Engineer - Hybrid World-Building AI Games

Electronic Arts Ltd; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 141,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Research Engineer to join the Worlds research pillar, blending game development with cutting-edge machine learning. You will craft prototypes inside the game engine and build demos that demonstrate new world-building techniques.

This hybrid role requires 7+ years of research or industry experience, strong vision-language and computer vision skills, and collaboration with researchers, engineers, artists and designers across offices in Vancouver or Montreal.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in CS or related STEM field.
• Expertise with vision-language models and CV methods.
• Experience turning ideas into functional prototypes.
• Strong Python and ML framework skills (PyTorch or TF).
• 7+ years combined research and industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate prototypes into production-ready engine features.
• Develop novel ideas and research applied solutions.
• Work on scene understanding, spatial reasoning, visual quality.
• Build demos that showcase world-building ideas in engines.
• Share findings and mentor teammates.

Skills

Vision-Language Models

Computer Vision

Python

ML Frameworks

Prototype development

Team collaboration

Education

PhD or MSc

Computer Science degree

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks a Senior Research Engineer to join the Worlds research pillar, blending game development with cutting-edge machine learning. You will craft prototypes inside the game engine and build demos that demonstrate new world-building techniques.

This hybrid role requires 7+ years of research or industry experience, strong vision-language and computer vision skills, and collaboration with researchers, engineers, artists and designers across offices in Vancouver or Montreal.