Senior AI Game Designer - American Football

Description

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling videogame franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected experiences that ignite the emotion of sport through industry-leading sports video games, including Madden NFL football, FC Soccer, NHL® hockey, and EA SPORTS UFC. We're building an exciting new American Football title and are looking for a Senior AI Technical Designer to help create intelligent, authentic, and engaging gameplay experiences.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing gameplay AI for shipped console or PC games.
• Experience building gameplay AI systems using a modern game engine such as Unreal Engine, Frostbite, Unity, or a proprietary engine.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5 strongly desired.
• Strong understanding of traditional game AI techniques including Behavior Trees, Blackboards, State Machines, Decision Trees, Utility AI, or similar gameplay AI architectures.
• Experience implementing navigation, pathfinding, perception, and tactical decision-making systems.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and gameplay tuning skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary development teams.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping games developed in Unreal Engine 5.
• Experience developing sports games or team-based gameplay systems.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine Gameplay Ability System (GAS).
• Experience using Blueprint and working alongside C++ gameplay engineers.
• Experience creating AI debugging, visualization, or authoring tools.
• Knowledge of American football strategy, formations, player responsibilities, or sports simulation gameplay.