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Senior Software Engineer (Low-Level ML Optimization)

EA Guildford (Electronic Arts)

Guildford, United Kingdom

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The role, as advertised by EA Guildford (Electronic Arts)

  • 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with C++, including expertise in multithreading and low-level/near-hardware optimizations.
  • GPU programming experience, including writing high-performance compute shaders in HLSL (or equivalent).
  • Proficient in debugging, profiling, and optimising real-time software.
  • Understand and practice of software engineering fundamentals, such as version control, code reviews, documentation, automated testing, coding standards, CI/CD, issue tracking, and Agile.
  • Experience collaborating and sharing updates with developers and partners, including remote and asynchronous teams across different time zones.
  • BSc or MSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent professional experience.

    • This role at a glance

    This is one of 153 programming and engineering roles open in England today, out of 631 live games jobs across the UK, and EA Guildford (Electronic Arts) is hiring for 14 other roles alongside it. Going by the title it’s a senior role, usually asking for several years’ experience and shipped titles. EA Guildford (Electronic Arts) doesn’t publish the salary here; across the 4 senior programming and engineering roles on the board that do, the median is £82k.

    Discipline
    Engineering
    Level (from the title)
    Senior
    On gamesJobs since
    16 Jul 2026
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    About EA Guildford (Electronic Arts)

    Electronic Arts is one of the largest game publishers in the world, behind series including EA Sports FC, Madden NFL, Battlefield, The Sims, Apex Legends and Need for Speed. Guildford in Surrey is one of EA's main UK locations and is home to Criterion Games, the studio known for Burnout and Need for Speed, which has more recently contributed to the Battlefield series.

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