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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
27 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$141,400–$204,400
across 16 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Software Engineer - Agentic Workflows, you will join the team to build and extend an agentic harness for game logic generation. You will develop systems for tool orchestration, context management, and engine integration while creating loops that allow agents to write, run, evaluate, and repair their own work. Your daily responsibilities include implementing safety guardrails like sandboxed execution and IP checks, building automated regression suites to validate output performance, and designing extensible interfaces for rapid technology iteration. You will utilize C++, Python, and experience with agentic workflows such as Claude Code or Codex. The role focuses on the technical challenge of productizing generative creation workflows within a game engine, specifically solving the problem of translating complex prototypes into production-ready features while ensuring architectural integrity and high performance in a gaming environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 830 postings across 69 companies.
Build and extend an agentic harness for game logic generation including tool orchestration and context management.
Integrate creator-focused systems into the core engine architecture to enable generative creation workflows.
Implement safety guardrails such as sandboxed execution, permissioned tool access, and content-safety checks.
Develop evaluation systems to verify that generated content compiles, loads correctly, and maintains performance standards.
Create automated regression suites to gate changes within the agentic harness.
Translate prototypes into production-ready engine features in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Design extensible interfaces to allow rapid iteration on new technologies while maintaining architectural integrity.
Define strategies for productizing new technologies within the engine to improve creator experience.
What we're looking for
8+ years of software engineering experience with AAA game engines like Frostbite, Unity, Unreal, Godot, or proprietary systems.
Expertise in C++.
Experience with Python.
Experience with agentic harnesses and workflows such as Claude Code, Codex, or Opencode.
Experience with context engineering, graph engineering, and long running workflow orchestration.
Experience with one or more game engine development domains including gameplay, simulation, systems, content pipelines, and performance-critical systems.
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