# Principal Founding Engineer, AI-Native Product Incubation

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

**Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/ko_KR/careers/JobDetail/Principal-Founding-Engineer-AI-Native-Product-Incubation/216399?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_058c5871-03f

## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking an experienced Founding Engineer to own the technology behind its AI-native products. This hands-on, full-stack role involves architecting products end-to-end, from backend services to web and native iOS and Android clients.

The successful candidate will:

- Help own the technical architecture and direction of Ventures products

- Take new ideas from 0 → 1 and build testable versions quickly

- Design, build, and operate scalable backend systems

- Build platform capabilities that several products and existing EA games can share

- Architect for scale and failure

- Design features end-to-end across service and client boundaries

- Build with AI coding agents as a core part of the workflow

- Own production, including environments, deployments, and infrastructure as code

- Release user-facing changes safely through feature flags and staged rollouts

- Integrate with EA platform services and third-party sports data and AI providers

- Set the engineering standard for code review, testing, and architectural decisions

- Partner with product and design to shape roadmaps

- Support and onboard new engineers joining the team

The candidate's success will be measured by:

- Speed from idea to a testable product

- Reliability, performance, and scalability of products in production

- Delivery of high-quality features across backend and clients

- Quality of architectural decisions and maintainability of systems

- Safe and observable releases

- Effective use of AI coding agents

- Clear technical direction

- Cost-efficient operation of cloud infrastructure

The ideal candidate has:

- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience

- Deep backend expertise designing and operating scalable distributed systems

- Experience with event-driven and real-time architectures

- Strong data modelling skills

- Experience running production services in the cloud

- Experience building software with AI coding agents

- Web and mobile fluency

- Proven ability to own a system end-to-end and make sound technical decisions

Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical insurance, mental health support, retirement savings, paid time off, and family leave.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- gRPC
- Protocol Buffers
- event-driven architectures
- real-time architectures
- message streaming
- durable workflow engines
- data modelling
- cloud infrastructure
- Kubernetes
- infrastructure as code
- observability
- AI coding agents
- web development
- mobile development

### Nice to have
- LLM-powered product features
- agentic product features

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