Technical Director, Electronic Arts
ML Solutions
CA$133.4-193.2k
Video game company
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Video game company
1001+ employees
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CA$133.4-193.2k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire the world to play, by creating games and experiences for the global player community that are a reflection of our diverse world.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience as a People Manager and 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, with increasing levels of responsibility
- Mentor, coach, and aid in the development of team members
- Set clear goals, and deliver them on time / at quality
- Negotiate with partners, vendors, and customers (game teams / game creators / Tech Artists / Product.)
- Experience architecting and coding backend/online services
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure (one of AWS, Azure, or Google)
- Experience working with relational (one of MySQL, Oracle, or similar) and non-relational data stores (one of Mongo, Dynamo, or similar)
- Experience working with containers (like Docker/similar) and fabrics (like Kubernetes/similar)
- Proficiency in at least one backend/online service programming language (e.g., Java, C#, Go, Scala, or similar) and an ability to pick up/learn new programming languages
- Experience integrating/working with GenAI and LLMs (e.g., GPT, Gemini, or similar)
- Experience integrating/working with ML Platforms and Ops pipelines and products
- Comfortable working in a remote or hybrid environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- This role reports to the Senior Technical Director
- Team Management: Lead a small but dynamic team of ML Platform and Ops Engineers,, and Software Engineers, promoting an atmosphere of innovation and collaboration
- Partnerships and Collaboration: Collaborate with Product Managers, Tech Artists, Software Engineers, and DevOps engineers to identify requirements
- Solution Architecture: Work with engineers in the team to architect backend services to power our generative AI/ML platform, ensuring performance, scalability, and security. Document technical specifications and system designs for future reference
- Technical Decision-making: Use your expertise to arbitrate technical decisions for the engineering team, and articulate/define the WHAT, HOW, and (in partnership with Product Management) WHY for our technology roadmaps
- Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers, promoting an environment of learning and improvement. Create and share best practices within the team. Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Quality & Code Reviews: Review completed engineering deliverables before release, ensuring that they meet our standards of quality and reliability
- Risk Management: Identify potential technical risks and manage them, implementing mitigation strategies
- Broad Technical Understanding: Develop an understanding of EA’s game technologies, engines, and strategies, ensuring that our development is aligned with EA’s broader goals
- Coding and Debugging: You will write clean, well-structured, and maintainable code that follows best practices. You will also troubleshoot and debug issues to ensure smooth functioning of all of the services
Our take
EA is a leading global game company, responsible for developing and publishing some of the biggest games of the last 20 years. Its publishing successes include giants like The Sims, Battlefield, and Mass Effect, while EA's titles, such as Fifa, Madden, and NBA Live, have also seen market-leading success.
A series of acquisitions in 2021 marked EA's push into mobile gaming, which has become the driving force behind the rapid growth of the global video gaming market, and has remained a clear focus for the company, despite the cancellation of its popular Apex Legends Mobile game. The company also expressed interest in NFTs and "play-to-earn" games, going so far as to label them "the future of the industry", but has since taken steps to distance itself from the idea, as it proved unpopular with gamers.
This combined model of publishing and development has allowed EA to put its name to a huge range of products, making the brand iconic in the gaming world. It has formed major partnerships with the likes of Disney, giving it full control of creating in-demand games, such as within the Star Wars franchise. In the upcoming years, the company plans to focus on games-as-a-service, as it embraces the evolution of the gaming world.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 1982
$2m
SERIES A
May 1982
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $2.2m
Company values
- Creativity: Striving to bring imagination, orginal ideals, and excitement to everything we do
- Pioneering: Acting with the curiosity and courage that it takes to experiment, innovate, and lead
- Passion: We are at our best when we pursue what we love, and have fun doing it
- Determination: Bringing focus, drive, and conviction to our actions. Thriving on the journey, and being mortivated to achieve excellence
- Learning: Listening, having humility, being open to new ways of thinking, and looking with a lens of inclusion. Challenging ourselves to grow and change as a company
- Teamwork: Committed to each other, and to the accountability and integrity tit takes to be a successful diverse team
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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Leadership
Andrew Wilson
(CEO, not founder)Joined EA as Vice President and Executive Producer in 2000, and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Electronic Arts
- Our intentional efforts to embed principles of diversity, equity and inclusion in our people practices have generated results across our teams.
- We have made progress in company-wide representation of women and underrepresented minorities.
- We have achieved a 46 percentage point increase in underrepresented talent in executive roles (VP+) over the last two fiscal years.
- We have hired underrepresented talent above our representation rates for the fourth consecutive year.
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