Senior Software Engineer (Apex Legends)
Los Angeles - Chatsworth, California, United States of America•Vancouver - Great Northern Way, British Columbia, Canada
Posted 1 month ago
Last seen 1 month ago
Active
full-time
EA Studios - Respawn
$165,900 - $238,100 CAD
Job Summary
Join Electronic Arts as a Senior Software Engineer on the Apex Legends Foundations team to design and build critical game technology, optimizing performance and enhancing player experiences across diverse systems. This role offers the chance to work on a AAA title with creative freedom and mentor other engineers.
About this job
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Foundations team for Apex Legends, you will design, build, and maintain core technology to create engaging gameplay and fantastic player experiences. This role involves collaborating with various teams to gather requirements, implement, test, optimize, and enhance features and toolchain support across a wide array of systems, including collision, physics, audio, and rendering.
Requirements
- Passion for making and playing games.
- Excellent C/C++ skills.
- 10+ years experience in game development as an engineer.
- Shipped at least one AAA title.
- Experience with large code bases and optimizing code, data, and bandwidth to improve both memory consumption and execution speed.
- Excellent math skills with an emphasis on 3D math.
- Excellent understanding of computation and evidence-based optimization.
- Engineering experience working with consoles (Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft).
- Engineering experience working with Windows PC (Microsoft/Steam/Origin).
- Bachelor's CS/Math degree or higher preferred (or equivalent work experience).
- Experience with PS5, XBSX (XB5) console generation.
- Familiarity with functional programming.
- Linux debugging experience.
- Console programming experience on a multiplayer AAA game.
- Solid foundation in TCP and UDP networking.
- Prior professional experience as a respected engineer on a game team.
- Comfortable in/with Windows, Linux, Perforce, Visual Studio, curl, PHP, LUA/Squirrel.
Benefits & Perks
- Paid time off (3 weeks per year to start in US, 3 weeks per year to start in Canada).
- Sick time (80 hours per year in US, 10 days per year in Canada).
- Paid company holidays (16 per year in US).
- Paid time off to bond with baby (10 weeks in US, 12 weeks maternity/4 weeks parental/adoption leave in Canada).
- Medical/dental/vision insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
- 401(k) (US) / Retirement plan (Canada).
- Potential eligibility for bonus and equity.
- Extensive portfolio of games and experiences.
- Opportunities for growth and learning.
- Holistic approach to benefits programs (physical, emotional, financial, career, community wellness).
- Complimentary games.
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