# Principal Technical Director - Neural Rendering

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Location**: Redwood City, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

Electronic Arts is seeking a Principal Technical Director with deep and broad rendering experience to lead a group of rendering engineers and researchers within its Research & Engineering team.

The successful candidate will understand rendering end-to-end: its impact on production, visuals, and game quality. They will also be knowledgeable about the research landscape, including neural rendering, and have a clear view of how graphics must evolve to shape the future of game worlds and experiences.

Responsibilities:

- Lead a team of 8-10 rendering engineers and researchers.

- Collaborate with senior leaders to define the future direction of rendering.

- Bring new ideas, discuss, and implement solutions to complex rendering challenges.

- Guide applied research of novel rendering for use cases in games and game development pipelines.

- Drive the delivery of novel rendering technology in partnership with the Head of Development.

Qualifications:

- 20+ years of PC or console game programming experience, with shipped AAA games or experience with game engines like Unity, Unreal, Frostbite, or similar technologies.

- Expertise in C++.

- Leadership experience, preferably leading a rendering team.

- Advanced knowledge of real-time rendering.

- Familiarity with machine learning techniques and their applications to graphics, such as neural rendering.

- Experience with agentic programming.

Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, which may include health services, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more. The company values adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity, and provides opportunities for growth and development.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- real-time rendering
- machine learning
- neural rendering
- agentic programming
- game engines

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