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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 2 Sept 2026

Description

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

Your Responsibilities:

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

Your qualifications:

  • 5+ years experience in software development engineering on gameplay teams.
  • Shipped 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: Electronic Arts applies a comprehensive approach to our benefits programs, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, professional, and social well-being to support a sustainable lifestyle. Our packages are tailored to local needs and may include healthcare, mental health support, retirement funds, paid and family leaves, free games, and many other perks.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://jobs.ea.com/pl_PL/careers/JobDetail/Gameplay-Engineer-Apex-Legends/216048