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Join to apply for the Software Quality Architect role at Electronic Arts (EA) Join to apply for the Software Quality Architect role at Electronic Arts (EA) Description & Requirements Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen. Description & Requirements Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen. As a Software Quality Architect at Electronic Arts, you will lead the creation and execution of a robust software quality strategy. You will champion the use of automation and emerging technologies to enhance test coverage, stability, and performance throughout the development lifecycle. As a technical and strategic leader, you will drive quality innovation, foster deep cross-functional collaboration, and mentor a team of quality professionals to deliver world-class player experiences. You will work closely with partners across Quality Verification, Engineering, Production, and Design to define quality goals, shape tools and pipelines, and ensure we proactively detect and resolve issues before they reach players. Key Responsibilities Quality Strategy and Technology Leadership Design and implement a comprehensive software quality strategy emphasizing automation, scalability, and effectiveness. Develop automation plans that expand test capabilities and coverage, support continuous validation, and empower teams to focus manual efforts on higher-value exploratory and experience-focused testing. Drive reporting and resolution of issues related to game/platform stability, performance, and test coverage. Keep current with industry trends and introduce new tools, technologies, and methodologies to improve quality engineering practices. Integrate telemetry, data analytics, and AI/ML capabilities to enhance test insight and impact. Partner with the Software Quality Technical Director to shape the roadmap and design scalable solutions. Stakeholder and Project Ownership Collaborate with multi-disciplinary stakeholders to align quality strategies with feature and release goals. Define project requirements, track goals and quality KPIs, and ensure risks are transparently communicated and addressed. Act as a primary point of contact for quality matters in planning, execution, and milestone reviews. Lead regular syncs and reporting cadences to monitor progress and drive cross-functional alignment. People and Team Leadership Mentor, coach, and support the growth of quality analysts, engineers, and designers on your team. Facilitate clear goal-setting, skill development, and team engagement practices. Foster a culture of experimentation, inclusion, accountability, and continuous improvement. Identify process improvements and implement best practices across the team and broader organization. Qualifications 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, or Software Testing. 5+ years in a strategic or team leadership role, with direct people management. Proven track record of designing and executing scalable automation and quality strategies. Solid understanding of software development practices, system architecture, and development risks. Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple locations and time zones. Experience driving open box testing using modern development tools and frameworks. Desirable Experience 3+ years experience in video game development is strongly preferred. Proficient with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, TestRail, DevTest, Perforce, or Git. Hands-on experience leveraging modern AI/ML/LLM systems to automate tasks. Data analysis and visualization using Power BI, Tableau, or similar. Hands-on experience with automation frameworks and telemetry systems. Experience with game engine tools such as Frostbite, Unreal Engine, or Unity. Knowledge of Agile development practices (Scrum, Kanban). Programming, scripting, or database experience (e.g., C#, Python, JavaScript, SQL). Compensation And Benefits The 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. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs). PAY RANGES California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento) $122,400 - $176,300 USD In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. About Electronic Arts We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth. We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do. 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.Seniority level Seniority levelMid-Senior level Employment type Employment typeFull-time Job function Job functionEngineering and Information Technology IndustriesEntertainment Providers Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Electronic Arts (EA) by 2x Get notified about new Software Architect jobs in Redwood City, CA . 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A leading gaming company is seeking a Security Engineer to enhance security for AI-enabled systems and LLM-integrated workflows. The ideal candidate will focus on identifying risks and building AI-driven security agents within a collaborative team environment. Responsibilities include conducting security tests, validating vulnerabilities, and integrating security practices into AI systems. Strong application security background and hands-on experience are essential. We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits, including flexible working arrangements.

Description & Requirements Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen. Security Engineer, AI Security EA Security is seeking an offensive-minded Security Engineer to help secure AI-enabled systems, agents, and LLM-integrated workflows across EA's games, services, and enterprise platforms. This role focuses on identifying real-world security risks in both commercial and internally developed AI platforms, and on building scalable testing, automation, and AI-driven security agents that extend the team's impact. You will work closely with Application Security and Red Team engineers, applying an attacker's mindset to AI systems while building scalable security testing, automation, and guardrails that meaningfully reduce risk. This role is hands on, technical, and impact-driven, with an emphasis on practical exploitation, adversarial testing, and scalable security outcomes. This role is ideal for security engineers who enjoy breaking complex systems, reasoning about abuse paths, and turning deep technical findings into scalable and durable AI security improvements. This position reports into the Application Security and Red Teaming organization. Responsibilities Perform security testing and reviews of AI-enabled applications, agents, and workflows, including architecture, design, and implementation analysis Identify and validate vulnerabilities in LLM-based systems such as data leakage, insecure tool use, authentication gaps, and abuse paths Evaluate AI systems for prompt injection (direct, indirect, conditional, and persistent), including risks introduced through retrieval-augmented generation and agentic workflows Conduct adversarial testing of commercial AI platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, Google AgentSpace, and OpenAI ChatGPT, as well as internally developed AI systems Assess agentic and multi-agent workflows for privilege escalation, unsafe action chaining, cross-agent abuse, and unintended side effects Design, build, and operate AI-driven security agents and automation, including multi-agent workflows, that scale application security, red teaming, and AI security efforts Develop tooling, test harnesses, and repeatable validation frameworks to expand AI security coverage across teams Partner with application engineers to translate findings into actionable mitigations, secure design patterns, and engineering guidance Collaborate with Red Team and AppSec engineers to integrate AI attack techniques and agent-based testing into broader offensive security activities Contribute reusable insights, documentation, and guardrails that help teams adopt AI securely and reduce future systemic risk Required Qualifications Strong background in application security, offensive security, or a combination of both Hands on experience identifying and exploiting security weaknesses in modern applications and services Experience testing or securing AI-enabled systems, LLM integrations, or agent-based workflows Ability to reason about attacker misuse, abuse scenarios, and emergent behavior beyond traditional vulnerability classes Experience building automation, tooling, or security agents using languages such as Python, Go, JavaScript, or similar Familiarity with source code review and security tooling such as CodeQL, Semgrep, or equivalent Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work directly with engineers and security partners Preferred Qualifications Experience assessing commercial AI platforms or enterprise AI services Familiarity with agent orchestration, tool calling, function execution, or multi agent systems Experience with traditional red team tooling or adversary simulation techniques Exposure to detection engineering, incident response, or threat intelligence workflows Experience turning novel AI security findings into scalable guidance rather than one off fixes Pay Transparency - North America Compensation And Benefits The 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. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs). PAY RANGES British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) $91,100 - $126,900 CAD California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) $101,700 - $151,900 USD Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane) $96,400 - $126,400 USD In the US, we offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. For British Columbia, we offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, paid top up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave), extended health/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, disability insurance, retirement plan to regular full time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity. About Electronic Arts We're proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth. We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do. Equal Opportunity Employer 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.