Senior Software Engineer - Game Capture & Integration

Electronic Arts Ltd; Redwood (TX); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to integrate their shared capture SDK across multiple EA titles. The role focuses on creating reproducible capture builds and adapters for renderer, input, animation, and gameplay systems.

You will work with Perforce streams across title development, resolve conflicts, and ensure synchronization between simulation, rendering, and audio. Hybrid role with locations in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver.

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

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

Skills

8+ years exp

C++ expertise

Engine branches

Perforce proficiency

Runtime systems

Performance debugging

CI/CD tooling

Python scripting

Telemetry/serialization

Job description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to integrate their shared capture SDK across multiple EA titles. The role focuses on creating reproducible capture builds and adapters for renderer, input, animation, and gameplay systems.

You will work with Perforce streams across title development, resolve conflicts, and ensure synchronization between simulation, rendering, and audio. Hybrid role with locations in Redwood City, Montreal, or Vancouver.