Senior Research Scientist (Computer Vision) - SEED

SEED is a pioneering group within Electronic Arts, combining creativity with applied research. We explore, build, and help define the future of interactive entertainment.

We exist at EA to deliver and foster inspiring innovation for our games and our players. We do this through exploration, research, prototypes, and never-ending curiosity. We collaborate with game teams and industry partners and also publish our research within our industry and to the public. We pursue long-term applied research yet stay relevant to the present by delivering artifacts along the way to game teams and technology groups inside EA. Some of our research includes bringing digital characters to life, using machine learning for game AI and content creation, and developing novel real-time graphics & physics techniques.

We are looking for a Senior Research Scientist —someone specialized in computer vision and generative AI—to contribute their unique expertise across SEED's projects, pushing forward content creation powered by AI and creating technology that enables world-class experiences for our players.

With your passion for computer vision, you have a good sense of the path to true innovation and applications of generative AI for content creation for video games. When it comes to Generative AI, you know the relevant research areas in the field and how they need to evolve and be applied for 2D and 3D content creation. You will also work with other researchers to design and implement technology that enables our game developers to create novel experiences for our players. This is an applied R&D role: you excel at both researching and implementing end-to-end solutions and know how to balance between quality and performance to ensure the delivery of results. As part of a collective of diverse individuals, you will also contribute your unique expertise across SEED's projects that live at the intersection of many domains.

This position is a flexible hybrid onsite role from one of our EA offices in Canada, and it offers an opportunity for remote work. You will report to our Generative AI research vector leader.

As a Senior Research Scientist at SEED, you will:

• Bring new ideas, discuss, and implement computer vision solutions to some of the most complex video game challenges to create differentiation for EA.
• Research novel computer vision technology, and applications for use cases in games and game development pipelines.
• Develop novel algorithms and models for image generation, object detection, recognition, segmentation, and other computer vision tasks.
• Build demos that showcase novel applications of computer vision technology.
• Contribute to the delivery of novel computer vision technology, from the R&D workbench into products at EA, in partnership with game teams and central technology groups.
• Collaborate with other developers at SEED on projects where your unique expertise will create novelty across SEED's projects that live at the intersection of many domains.
• Collaborate with game teams and central technology groups to understand their requirements better and bring expertise in overlapping areas.
• Share your work through publications, open-sourcing, and speaking at conferences.

As a diverse team with solid goals, we provide autonomy and true influence to each member of SEED. We are looking for an open and curious person; someone who gets a kick out of taking new ideas, investigating them, and adapting their application to games. You have a desire to explore new areas of game development - someone who is passionate, creative, communicative, and invested.

Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, computer vision, or a relevant field.
• 7+ years of professional experience in research and development.
• Expertise in generative models, such as VAEs, GANs, Transformers, or Diffusion models.
• Understanding of computer vision fundamentals and algorithms, 3D computer vision algorithms and techniques, such as novel view synthesis and reconstruction.
• General knowledge of computer graphics.
• Experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Proficient in programming languages such as C++, Python, or others.
• Publications, presentations, or related artifacts in computer vision research.
• You work well within a team and want to collaborate with other researchers, engineers, artists, and designers.
• Willingness to travel for conferences and visit teams across EA studios.
• You care about video games.
• Optionally, you are familiar with game engines.
• Optionally, you have experience having delivered AI-powered technology, either in AAA games or relevant products.

If you want to be part of—and work with—some of the most incredible people in the field, then SEED is your team!

To learn more about SEED and our impactful work, check out https://seed.ea.com/