Systems Software Engineer: Engine & AI Tools (Onsite Vancouver)

Electronic Arts; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 105,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks vacation

Sick time 10 days/yr

Health/dental/vision coverage

Retirement plan

Job summary

Electronic Arts in Vancouver, BC is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to help define and evolve foundational engine and tool systems across gameplay, rendering, and online services. You will tackle challenging systems problems with ownership of key initiatives and collaborate across teams to enable performance and creative freedom.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering, end-to-end delivery, and a focus on performance, memory usage, and developer workflows.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including work on large-scale or performance-sensitive systems.
• Strong expertise in C++ and comfort navigating large, complex codebases.
• Solid understanding of systems-level fundamentals: performance, memory management, multithreading, and platform constraints.
• Experience working in or alongside game engines or real‑time systems.
• A proven ability to deliver complex systems end-to-end with quality and predictability.
• Experience with, or strong curiosity around, AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping, development, testing, and workflow automation.
• Proven track record of—or strong affinity for—integrating emerging AI technologies into development or creative pipelines to drive innovation and efficiency.
• A collaborative, support‑oriented mindset, with clear communication across disciplines.
• Preferred: Exposure to tooling, build systems, automation, or multi‑platform development.
• Preferred: Interest in growing technical leadership responsibilities and influencing long‑term strategy.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical partner across the team, helping engineers understand platform capabilities, engine behavior, and system-level tradeoffs.
• Enable other domains to design and ship better features by providing guidance, shared systems, and scalable technical solutions.
• Help define and drive engine, platform, automation, and release strategies in partnership with technical leadership.
• Deliver foundational improvements in performance, memory usage, load times, stability, and developer workflows through well-designed systems.
• Own the delivery of systems initiatives end-to-end, including planning, risk identification, and execution.
• Track and uphold technical KPIs across performance, memory usage, load times, stability, and maintainability on all supported platforms.
• Ensure systems ship predictably, scale effectively, and support both development and live-service needs.
• Build strong working relationships with franchise systems teams and central engine groups, sharing solutions, best practices, and hard-earned lessons.

Skills

C++

Systems programming

Multithreading

Game engines

AI tooling

Collaboration

Job description

Electronic Arts in Vancouver, BC is seeking a Systems Software Engineer to help define and evolve foundational engine and tool systems across gameplay, rendering, and online services. You will tackle challenging systems problems with ownership of key initiatives and collaborate across teams to enable performance and creative freedom.

This role emphasizes hands-on engineering, end-to-end delivery, and a focus on performance, memory usage, and developer workflows.