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Rendering Systems Software Engineer - EA Sports Advanced Tech Group

The Advanced Technology Group is part of the EA SPORTS Tech organization, focused on developing cutting edge game features and engine enhancements in close collaboration with game and engine dev teams. Team members will be part of a cross-functional team tackling a variety of technical challenges beginning from proof of concept to implementation for titles across EA. A key priority for this group is to partner with the Frostbite team, our Game teams, and our central art team to create meaningful user facing experiences and content workflow improvements. This role will work on our strategic, multi-year project in unifying our Create-a-Head tools and experiences while innovating on the created character heads for all EA SPORTS titles.

The Rendering Software Engineer is an essential part of the game creation process. They are involved in architectural design and implementation of rendering technology on multiple platforms. They are working with designers, artists and other engineers to build complex graphics features – life-like visuals, huge and immersive worlds and state-of-the-art graphical FX.

Your Responsibilities

• Develop core rendering features, engine components and tools.
• Create reusable & flexible rendering technologies.
• Write technical design specifications.
• Design, maintain, implement, test and debug code, pipelines and other rendering-related sub-components and packages.
• Profile and optimize rendering modules of a game engine.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest hardware & software changes enhancing the rendering domain.

Your Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with C++ development. 3+ years of experience with Direct 3D, OpenGL or equivalent.
• Formal background in rendering with experience that may include shaders, animation, skinning, lighting, special effects and tool development.
• Experience developing graphics techniques and detailed knowledge of graphics hardware.
• Math skills including trigonometry, calculus and linear algebra.
• Understanding of memory management, multiple processor use, and runtime optimization.
• Knowledge of good software engineering practices, and ability to test and debug unfamiliar code.
• Expertise in several of these fields: vertex and pixel shaders including HLSL and FX; terrain or environment rendering; advanced lighting techniques, particle systems, special effects, art pipelines, tool development and game engine architecture.
• Experience shipping at least one title on PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo consoles is a plus.
• Experience with graphics tools and exporters such as Maya, MotionBuilder and Photoshop; knowledge of Maya API and Mel programming is a plus.

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