Principal Founding Engineer, AI-Native Product Incubation

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.

Founding Engineer

The future of entertainment is interactive, and our Ventures Group plays an important role in this future by building content, culture, and community that take us Beyond Gaming.

Beyond our existing franchises, Ventures is focused on incubating bold new ideas - exploring emerging technologies, new platforms, and entirely new forms of interactive entertainment.

What We're Building

We're launching a new wave of incubation within EA - small, highly autonomous teams exploring 0 → 1 product opportunities.

As a Founding Engineer, you'll partner directly with a Product Founder to rapidly prototype, launch, and scale new ventures. This is not a traditional engineering role focused on a single component or service. You'll be responsible for architecting and building entire products - from frontend (web and native mobile) experiences to backend systems, infrastructure, AI integrations, and operational tooling.

You'll leverage modern AI-native development workflows to dramatically increase velocity while maintaining a high bar for quality, scalability, and user experience.

What You'll Do

Architect and Build New Products

* Design and develop end-to-end product experiences across web, mobile, backend services, and cloud infrastructure.

* Establish scalable technical foundations that enable rapid experimentation without sacrificing long-term maintainability.

* Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and future growth.

Lead AI-Native Development

* Operate multiple AI coding agents and development tools to accelerate product development.

* Develop workflows that combine human judgment with AI-assisted implementation, testing, debugging, and iteration.

* Continuously evaluate emerging AI tooling and integrate it into the product development process.

Own Technical Execution

* Translate product concepts into working software with exceptional speed and quality.

* Build APIs, services, data pipelines, frontend (web and native mobile) experiences, and supporting infrastructure as needed.

* Maintain a strong focus on performance, reliability, security, and scalability.

Scale Successful Ventures

* Evolve prototypes into production-ready systems capable of supporting growth.

* Implement observability, monitoring, deployment pipelines, and operational best practices.

* Continuously improve architecture as products mature and user adoption increases.

Contribute to the Ventures Playbook

* Share technical learnings, AI workflows, architectural patterns, and development practices across EA Ventures.

* Help establish new ways of building products that can be replicated across future incubation efforts.

What You Bring

* 10+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack products from concept to launch.

* Strong software engineering fundamentals across frontend (web and native mobile), backend, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.

* Proven ability to operate independently and make high-quality technical decisions with limited guidance.

* Experience designing scalable architectures and modern cloud-native systems.

* Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and excitement about AI-native engineering workflows.

* Ability to move quickly while maintaining strong engineering judgment.

* Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

* Passion for building products from 0 → 1 and a strong understanding how to scale to millions of users

Bonus Points

* Startup or founding engineer experience.

* Experience building consumer-facing applications in gaming, sports, social, media, or entertainment.

* Experience building AI-powered products, agents, orchestration systems, or LLM-based applications.

* Familiarity with modern mobile development ecosystems.

* Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD, observability, and production operations.

* Experience scaling products…