Senior Research Engineer - ML Agents - Creative Innovation

Senior Research Engineer – ML Bots

Location: Vancouver, BC (Hybrid – 3 days/week in office). The role is part of the Creative Innovation Pillar, focusing on developing real‑time NPC behaviors and game AI bots using reinforcement learning and imitation learning.

The position reports to the Pillar Lead for Emergent Gameplay and engages with game studios to translate research into functional demonstrations that guide innovation for EA's games.

Responsibilities

• Develop novel ideas by researching and implementing solutions to complex challenges in video game AI.
• Contribute to applied research in areas such as Language Models, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, and agent reasoning, proposing new use cases and algorithms for player‑facing game AI agents while targeting real‑time, on‑device performance.
• Build compelling demos that highlight novel applications of AI agents, NPC behaviors, and game AI bots, integrating into mo...