Applied AI Researcher

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior AI/ML Research Scientist to advance the next generation of Generative AI capabilities across creative content generation and foundation models. This role will focus on developing, adapting, and optimizing state-of-the-art AI models, including diffusion models, LLMs, multimodal architectures, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). You will drive research and development efforts and model architectures that enable scalable, high‑quality content generation.

The ideal candidate combines deep scientific expertise with hands‑on experience building and training large‑scale machine learning systems, working closely with cross‑functional teams of engineers, product leaders, and domain experts to define the organization’s AI strategy and deliver breakthrough capabilities that leverage advances in GenAI and Deep Learning.

• Lead research and development of state‑of‑the‑art generative AI systems, including diffusion models, latent diffusion architectures, and multimodal foundation models.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into model requirements, advising on what is possible and the impact that the models can drive.
• Design, train, fine‑tune, and optimize large‑scale AI models for creative content generation.
• Develop and apply parameter‑efficient adaptation techniques, including LoRA, adapters, prompt tuning, and related methods for foundation model customization.
• Advance internal LLM capabilities through model training, fine‑tuning, evaluation, alignment, and optimization.
• Research and implement Graph Neural Network (GNN) architectures to model complex relationships, knowledge graphs, recommendation systems, and structured data representations.
• Evaluate emerging research and rapidly prototype innovative approaches from leading conferences and publications.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to transition research innovations into scalable production systems.

• PhD or Master’s in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field.
• 7+ years of experience conducting advanced machine learning research and development with a track record of translating cutting‑edge research into impactful products or platforms.
• Strong publication record in leading AI conferences or journals (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, AAAI, or equivalent).
• Deep expertise in deep learning fundamentals, optimization, representation learning, and neural network architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or Tensor Flow.
• Experience in training and evaluating large‑scale machine learning models on distributed compute infrastructure and GPU‑accelerated computing environments.

• Expertise in developing and training diffusion models, latent diffusion models, or related generative architectures.
• Experience fine‑tuning foundation models using LoRA, QLoRA, adapters, PEFT techniques, RLHF, DPO, or similar approaches.
• Experience developing generative AI systems for image, video, audio, 3D, or other creative content domains.

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

• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane) *$133,100 - $178,400 USD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation  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) for regular full‑time employees.

Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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.