Tools Software Engineer, Electronic Arts

• Bachelor/Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years experience in a hands-on development role
• 1.5+ years experience building tools or applications in C# and WPF
• Demonstrated technical abilities and experience developing systems in large code bases written in C# and C++
• Experience with Windows platform and development tools
• Experience building tools or applications that have a medium to large user base and that are used to manipulate complex or large amounts of data
• Experience developing for large-scale live products. Products that are continuously updated to provide improved user experiences or expanded feature sets
• Experience working in highly collaborative environments with diverse roles beyond engineering such as design, production, art and product management
• Demonstrated user-first mentality and willingness to work through technical limitations to provide the best user experience possible
• Strong communication skills

Desirable

• Work with multiple designers and engineers prototyping and shipping different features that expand the gameplay possibilities of Sims games. Most of the work will be done in C#, with the front-end being developed in WPF
• Build tools that help create and manipulate a very large number of game tuning and assets that assemble to create rich player facing features
• Implement developer facing editors that provide high impact visualization to manipulate game tuning and assets e.g. state machine editor, behavior tree editor, expression editor in C# and WPF
• Work with the other game engineers and designers to implement a data-driven simulation system to author player facing behaviors in Unreal and C++
• Author technical design documents detailing software requirements