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Senior Gameplay Software Engineer - NBA Live

Role Overview

An AI Programmer focuses on player and team behavior and will inevitably be involved with more specialized areas of gameplay, such as passing or shooting. AI programmers implement data driven strategy tunables, decision making logic, and behavioral logic.

What skills does EA look for?

EA looks for generalists who are comfortable writing complex systems, such as world management, character interaction, A.I., and other creative systems that take games to a new level. AI Engineers should demonstrate game programming experience, have a Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/Math or equivalent, and demonstrable skills in C++ (and/scripting language experience in LUA TCL, Python). In addition, they should have experience working on at least one released game, possess excellent oral and written communication skills, and have strong creative, collaborative, and problem-solving skills. AI Engineers must have a deep knowledge of games and a passion for game development. Experience architecting and/or implementing A.I., character control, world management, or other gameplay-related systems are a plus. AI Engineers are tasked with increasing the information available to AI systems, creating and improving existing decision-making logic, and achieving designed behaviors harmoniously within the game environment.

Experience working with Animation Systems as they relate to sports games

Experience with game console programming

Experience Integrating AI and Animations

Experience with Game/Simulation Physics

Experience with deterministic simulations.

Experience with finite state machines and behavioral trees.