Senior Software Engineer, Game Data Capture

Electronic Arts (EA); Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 141,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation 3 weeks per year

Sick time 10 days per year

Top-up EI/QPIP

Health/dental/vision coverage

Retirement plan

Job summary

Electronic Arts in Canada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to integrate EA's shared game-data capture technology into production codebases and establish reproducible instrumented title builds.

You will work across Perforce streams, adapt engine subsystems for synchronized rendering, simulation, input, audio and gameplay signals, and own the path from an available title stream to a validated capture build.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in AAA games, real-time simulation, or similarly complex systems.
• Expertise in C++.
• Experience integrating or maintaining systems across game-engine branches.
• Deep familiarity with Perforce streams, merges, conflict resolution, and build reproducibility.
• Experience with game-engine runtime systems such as rendering, simulation, input, animation, physics, audio, or gameplay frameworks.
• Experience diagnosing timing, threading, performance, memory, and stability issues.
• Experience with build systems and CI/CD tooling.
• Python or similar scripting experience for build, test, and capture automation.
• Experience with telemetry, serialization, schema-versioned data, replay, or automated data validation.

Responsibilities

• Integrate the shared capture SDK into dedicated streams for multiple EA titles.
• Own ongoing merges from title development streams and resolve integration conflicts while minimizing long-lived patches.
• Develop title-specific adapters for renderer outputs, camera state, input, physics, animation, navigation, audio, gameplay state, and action events.
• Configure controlled capture modes, including fixed-timestep simulation, frame-rate control, and synchronization between simulation, rendering, audio, and input.
• Establish reproducible capture builds tied to exact Perforce changelists, dependencies, configurations, and schema versions.
• Develop automated validation that detects missing modalities, timing drift, dropped frames, corrupted output, and incompatible schema changes.
• Profile and debug performance, memory, threading, and stability issues introduced by instrumentation.
• Translate researcher requests into title-specific implementations and identify requirements that should become shared capture-platform capabilities.

Skills

C++

Perforce

Engine branches

Rendering

Simulation

Animation

Physics

CI/CD

Python

Telemetry

Tools

Perforce

Job description

Electronic Arts in Canada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to integrate EA's shared game-data capture technology into production codebases and establish reproducible instrumented title builds.

You will work across Perforce streams, adapt engine subsystems for synchronized rendering, simulation, input, audio and gameplay signals, and own the path from an available title stream to a validated capture build.