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Base City: 

Vancouver - On-site

Salary: 

$133k to $193k

Rating: 

Self-taught: 

Position Type: 

Full-time

Position Keywords: 

Experience: 

7 years C++

Other Experience: 

· 7+ years of programming experience in C++ with a deep understanding of the language, best practices, and architectural considerations.

· Excellent problem-solving skills and a service-oriented mindset.

· Strong communication skills, capable of working effectively with both technical and non-technical partners across development and leadership teams.

· Expertise in concurrency, memory, and performance optimization.

· Proven experience in developing for multiple devices, including consoles and various hardware requirements.

· Proficiency in managing large codebases and multi-product development.

· Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-domain investigations to identify and resolve issues.

· Experience working with game engines such as Unreal, Unity, or Frostbite is preferred.

· Bonus: Familiarity with multiple profiling tools such as PiX, Superluminal, or Tracy Profiler.

About the Job: 

We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

What they want you to do: 

The Engine Systems Performance team is looking for a programmer like you to join our team who has experience understanding technical changes and debugging and diagnosing issues across projects and code branches. Ideally you also enjoy the challenge of diving into a performance issue to discover the root cause and sharing solutions across teams. You will work with developers across the entire production pipeline, such as developers, production, designers and artists, to ensure our game and development workflows are performant.

Your work will have a strong impact on the players experience across multiple projects and activities within the Battlefield franchise.

· Collaborate with the Performance team and Engine organization to set and achieve team goals for your specific domain or area.

· Analyze game performance using various systems and tools, identifying and reporting areas of concern.

· Conduct root cause analysis for performance issues, proposing effective mitigation strategies and solutions.

· Assist game code and content developers in debugging and optimizing performance bottlenecks found during testing.

· Review technical design documents to identify potential performance pitfalls and recommend alternative implementations.

· Identify opportunities to improve tooling or workflows for better triaging, reporting, and analysis of performance issues.

· Adapt and evolve the current toolset to address new features or problem spaces.


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