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Electronic Arts

Gameplay Engineer (Apex Legends)

Electronic Arts
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hybrid senior full-time Los Angeles - Chatsworth, California

First indexed 28 Aug 2026

Description

We are seeking an experienced Gameplay Engineer to help build and support high-quality player-facing gameplay features for a live-service multiplayer game, Apex Legends.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Partnering closely with designers to develop, prototype, iterate, and polish gameplay features that support the overall creative vision of the game.
  • Implementing and maintaining gameplay systems with a focus on reliability, performance, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
  • Supporting core gameplay development across multiple gameplay areas, including player-facing systems, weapons, abilities, and mode-specific features.
  • Collaborating with internal teams and external partners to help deliver features that integrate cleanly into the broader game experience.
  • Working with engineers, designers, artists, animators, QA, and production to deliver high-quality features on schedule while managing technical risk.
  • Investigating and resolving bugs, regressions, edge cases, and gameplay issues across a large, complex codebase.
  • Contributing to technical design discussions, code reviews, and ongoing improvements to engineering standards, workflows, and shared gameplay technology.
  • Helping ensure that new gameplay features are robust, scalable, performant, and appropriate for a live multiplayer environment.
  • Providing guidance to other engineers through technical feedback, implementation support, and clear communication of tradeoffs.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years experience in software development engineering on gameplay teams.
  • Experience shipping multiplayer video game titles.
  • Experience working on Live Service video game titles.
  • Experience working with a large codebase, managing and improving performance and budget.
  • Advanced C++/C skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent training and professional experience.

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive benefits package, including physical, emotional, financial, work-life, and social well-being support.
  • Opportunities for growth and development.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Access to free games and more.
This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://jobs.ea.com/it_IT/careers/JobDetail/Gameplay-Engineer-Apex-Legends/216048