Machine Learning Engineer III

Electronic Arts

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Kirkland, WA · Austin, TX
Salary
$122,300–$158,500 / yr
Posted
2 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $217k
This role $140k
$105k most similar roles pay here $279k

This role pays less than 96% of similar roles. Most pay $183,752–$249,756 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $140k versus about $217k for comparable roles.

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About Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment, developing and publishing games for consoles, mobile, and PC under franchises including FIFA, Madden NFL, The Sims, Apex Legends, and Battlefield.

Electronic Arts currently has 75 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $122,300–$184,000 across 41 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineer III

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer role at EA’s Security team in Kirkland, Washington or Austin, Texas involves designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines for fraud detection and anti-cheat systems. This senior individual contributor will build production-grade infrastructure to support machine learning workflows, ensuring data consistency and quality across environments. Key responsibilities include developing feature generation pipelines, training models, and deploying inference systems while collaborating closely with data scientists. The ideal candidate has five or more years of experience in data engineering or a related field, proficiency in Python and SQL, and hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, Rust programming, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, and CI/CD tools such as GitLab. This role offers the opportunity to work on systems that protect millions of players across EA games, emphasizing data engineering fundamentals and production-focused machine learning practices.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain scalable data pipelines for machine learning workflows.
  • Operate production data infrastructure for fraud detection and anti-cheat systems.
  • Partner with data scientists to deploy machine learning models in production.
  • Ensure reliability and observability of cloud-based data and ML pipelines.
  • Contribute to architectural standards and engineering best practices.

What we're looking for

  • Five or more years of professional experience in data engineering, machine learning, or a related field.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL for building large-scale production-grade data pipelines.
  • Experience designing and operating data-intensive systems using modern programming languages like Rust.
  • Hands-on expertise supporting end-to-end machine learning workflows including data preparation and model deployment.
  • Proficiency with cloud environments such as AWS or GCP, containerization tools like Docker, and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD systems (e.g., GitLab) and infrastructure automation tools (e.g., Terraform).
  • Experience with large-scale data processing systems and Apache Spark.

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