Respawn Entertainment is hiring: Technical Director - Tools (Apex Legends) in Ca

Technical Director – Tools (Apex Legends)

Join Respawn Entertainment to lead cutting‑edge tools and pipelines for Apex Legends, Titanfall, and other acclaimed titles.

Responsibilities

• Distill company goals into tools, pipelines, and workflows, and achieve them.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to tools engineers.
• Balance technical and project long‑term goals and vision.
• Partner with other disciplines on requirements, priorities, and planning.
• Guide an empowering partner‑centric engineering culture for content creators.
• Collaborate on performance management, retention, and hiring.
• Collaborate with other technical directors on Apex’s short and long‑term technical direction.
• Collaborate with technical art directors on tools and technical art.

• Provide technical direction for Apex tools engineering.
• Promote good engineering practices and ensure compliance with standards.
• Ensure code quality, performance, usability, and stability of tools, workflows, and pipelines.
• Approve technical design documents and provide code and script review feedback.
• Manage technical dependencies and risks.
• Manage technical partnerships within Apex and across Respawn/EA.
• Spend roughly 80% of time on strategic and leadership work with 20% devoted to hands‑on tool development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with an emphasis on tools/pipelines.
• Shipped multiplayer AAA titles on multiple generations of hardware platforms.
• Experience working on large‑scale Live Services title.
• 5+ years of leadership experience.
• Experience with large code bases, legacy code bases, industry standard tool sets and workflows.
• Advanced C/C++ skills.
• C# skills.

Compensation & Benefits

Pay ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors.

• British Columbia (Vancouver or Victoria) – $138,700 – $199,900 CAD
• California (Los Angeles or San Francisco) – $160,600 – $249,300 USD

In the US, we offer paid time off, sick time, holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, 401(k), and potential bonus and equity.

In British Columbia, we offer vacation, sick time, top‑up to EI/QPIP, extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, and retirement plan, and potential bonus and equity.

About Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.