Software Engineer II — Engine & AI Tools (Hybrid)

Electronic Arts (EA); Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 105,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation time: 3 weeks

Extended health coverage

Job summary

Electronic Arts seeks a Software Engineer II to help build an agentic harness that turns intent into working games, enabling an agent to write, run, evaluate, and repair its own work. You will work hybrid, onsite in Vancouver, Montreal, or Redwood City, collaborating with engine teams to integrate creator-focused systems into the core engine.

You will implement guardrails, evaluation suites, and partner with researchers, engineers, artists, and designers to translate prototypes into

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with AAA game engines.
• Expertise in C++ and Python.
• Experience with agentic harnesses and workflows.
• Experience with context engineering, graph engineering, and long running workflow orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend an agentic harness for game logic generation and tool orchestration.
• Integrate creator-focused systems into the engine architecture for generative workflows.
• Implement guardrails including sandboxed execution, tool access permissions, content-safety, and IP checks.
• Develop automated regression suites to gate harness changes based on runtime checks.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, artists, and designers to productionize prototypes.
• Design extensible interfaces to enable rapid iteration while maintaining architecture integrity.
• Define productization of new technologies within the engine and creator experience.

Skills

C++

Python

AAA game engines

Engine development

Context engineering

Workflow orchestration

Game tooling

Tools

Frostbite

Unity

Unreal

Godot

Job description

Electronic Arts seeks a Software Engineer II to help build an agentic harness that turns intent into working games, enabling an agent to write, run, evaluate, and repair its own work. You will work hybrid, onsite in Vancouver, Montreal, or Redwood City, collaborating with engine teams to integrate creator-focused systems into the core engine.

You will implement guardrails, evaluation suites, and partner with researchers, engineers, artists, and designers to translate prototypes into