Senior Gameplay Software Engineer - EA SPORTS™ UFC

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Gameplay Software Engineer to join the EA SPORTS™ UFC team in Vancouver, British Columbia. As a Senior Gameplay Engineer, you will play a crucial role in shaping the core player experience and elevating combat systems to the next level.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Designing and building core systems, such as player controls, combat logic, character animation state machines, physics interactions, and spatial AI
• Collaborating with designers, animators, audio engineers, and producers to translate creative vision into engaging gameplay mechanics
• Contributing to core engine capabilities, multi-threaded architecture, memory management, and network synchronization
• Integrating emerging AI techniques and automated workflows into development pipelines
• Building and maintaining developer-facing tools, editors, and performance profiling utilities
• Continuously iterating on gameplay mechanics to ensure responsiveness, impact clarity, frame accuracy, and overall player satisfaction
• Guiding and mentoring junior and mid-level engineers

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in video game development
• Advanced proficiency in C++ and object-oriented software design
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, 3D math, and physics
• Deep experience with debugging, memory optimization, multi-threading, and performance profiling
• Hands-on experience developing gameplay systems such as combat mechanics, player controllers, animation trees/IK, physics, or game AI
• Excellent communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience