# Senior Software Engineer - Generalist (Foundations) (Apex Legends)

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

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## Description

Electronic Arts creates incredible entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story, part of a community that connects people globally.

Respawn Entertainment, founded in 2010, operates with the philosophy that when talented people have creative freedom, they'll make extraordinary games that achieve the unexpected. As a Senior Software Engineer, Engine Systems, you will report to the Principal Technical Director and build the foundational technology that powers Apex Legends. You will design and maintain core engine systems across physics, memory, input, and platform layers. You will partner with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver scalable systems that improve performance, stability, and player experience in a live service environment.

Responsibilities:

- Design and maintain core engine systems across multiple domains

- Own cross-cutting technical initiatives from design to release

- Optimize memory, CPU, and bandwidth across gameplay systems

- Debug and resolve complex issues in large-scale codebases

- Integrate platform and partner technologies into the engine

- Collaborate with design, art, and audio on feature development

- Mentor engineers through code reviews and technical guidance

Qualifications:

- 8+ years developing game engine or systems-level code

- Strong C/C++ experience in performance-critical systems

- Experience working in large, shared codebases

- Shipped at least one AAA game on console or PC

- Experience optimizing memory, CPU, or runtime performance

- Experience developing on Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo platforms

- Strong understanding of 3D math or simulation systems

Electronic Arts offers equal opportunities. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, disease, pregnancy, marital status, family status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit packages tailored to meet local needs, which may include medical insurance, mental wellbeing support, pension plans, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- C/C++
- game engine development
- systems-level code
- performance-critical systems
- large codebases
- AAA game development
- memory optimization
- CPU optimization
- runtime performance
- 3D math
- simulation systems

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