Senior Research Engineer (Worlds)

Electronic Arts is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to join its Worlds research pillar and help redefine game world authoring technologies.

The Senior Research Engineer will work at the intersection of traditional artistry and breakthrough Machine Learning, building tools that will shape future virtual worlds.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with researchers, engineers, artists, and designers to translate prototypes into production-ready engine features.
• Develop novel ideas by researching and implementing solutions to complex challenges in video games.
• Contribute to applied research in areas such as scene understanding, spatial reasoning, and visual quality evaluation.
• Build compelling demos that highlight powerful novel solutions for world-building in games.
• Contribute to team learning, share findings and best practices, and help others in the team succeed.

Qualifications:

• Advanced Research Background: A degree in Computer Science, a STEM field, or equivalent practical experience related to Game Content Creation.
• Technical expertise: Proven expertise with Vision-Language Models (VLMs), Computer Vision methods, and hands-on experience with model training and inference.
• Practical experience: Experience translating ideas into functional prototypes or demos that showcase concepts in practice.
• Tooling Proficiency: Strong skills with development on Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow), along with agentic frameworks.
• Experience & Education Requirements: Combined experience 7+ years between graduate degree research (PhD, Masters) and professional/research experience.

The role is hybrid, 3 days a week at the office in Redwood City (California), Montreal, or Vancouver (Canada) studio.

Salary:

• British Columbia: $141,400 - $204,400 CAD
• California: $165,000 - $256,000 USD

Benefits:

• In the US: paid time off, sick time, company holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k)
• In Canada: vacation, sick time, paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement plan