Senior Engine Tools Engineer – Generative AI & Creator Systems

Electronic Arts (EA); Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts in Redwood City seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help shape how new technologies integrate into a world-class engine used by millions of players. This hybrid role requires collaboration across research, engineering, and design groups to turn prototypes into production-ready features.

You will work across tools, data pipelines, and runtime systems, advancing AI/ML, procedural generation, and creator tooling while maintaining engine integrity and developer usability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with AAA game engines (e.g., Frostbite, Unity, Unreal, Godot, or proprietary).
• Experience with large C++ codebases.
• Proficiency across engine development domains (gameplay, simulation, systems, content pipelines, performance).
• Experience navigating large codebases and becoming productive quickly in tools/pipelines/runtime systems.
• Experience with AI/ML, procedural generation, and creator tooling systems.
• Experience writing agentic tooling and function calling.
• Experience with structured output and schema design.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of generative game logic generation and tool orchestration.
• Integrate creator-focused systems into the core engine architecture.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, artists, and designers to translate prototypes into production-ready engine features.
• Contribute across engine domains including tools, data pipelines, and runtime systems.
• Design extensible interfaces for rapid iteration on new technologies while preserving architecture integrity.
• Define how to productize new technologies within the engine and the creator experience.

Skills

C++

Python

Game engine dev

Engine tooling

AI/ML

CI/CD

Code architecture

Team collaboration

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Electronic Arts in Redwood City seeks a Senior Software Engineer to help shape how new technologies integrate into a world-class engine used by millions of players. This hybrid role requires collaboration across research, engineering, and design groups to turn prototypes into production-ready features.

You will work across tools, data pipelines, and runtime systems, advancing AI/ML, procedural generation, and creator tooling while maintaining engine integrity and developer usability.