AI Enablement Architect Lead

Locations : Austin, TX, United States of America; Kirkland, WA, United States of America; Vancouver, BC, Canada. 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. Our EA Experiences group (XO) is dedicated to ensuring great experiences for our growing communities centered around our world-renowned brands, including fan-favorites like Apex, Battlefield, EA SPORTS FC, Madden NFL and The Sims, just to name a few. We’re a multi-functional group, with world-class expertise building fandoms, driving interactive storytelling, and positioning our franchises at the center of the broader entertainment ecosystem. We inspire, connect, and engage fans through culturally relevant content, intentionally architected journeys across channels, and meaningful fan care. Our goal is to provide valuable, easy experiences that fans love – in our games, around our games, and through innovative adjacent experiences to grow and enrich how fans experience EA as we shape the future of entertainment. To empower more players and fans in new and amazing ways, we need more innovators to join our world-class team. The future of entertainment is interactive, and you can help lead that future, by growing and enriching how hundreds of millions of people (and counting) find joy and belonging, forge friendships, and celebrate their lived experiences through the work we do every single day, together. As an AI Enablement Lead for EA Experiences, you will be an innovator and creator of cutting-edge AI solutions, solutions that keep our fans at the center of everything we do. You will collaborate closely with teams across EA Experiences, developing and understanding their business, their challenges, and their opportunities. You will rapidly create innovative AI solutions using cutting-edge AI technologies that provide increased efficiency and help our teams focus on what matters most, our fans. This is an internal enablement role focused on building and productionizing GenAI solutions for XO teams. Responsibilities Implement AI solutions to enable efficiency, expansion, and transformation across EA Experiences, directly aligned with EA Experiences' goals. Stay informed on the evolution of AI technologies and opportunities to drive efficiency, expansion, and transformation. Have a deep understanding of AI technologies and solutions, specifically focusing on how they can be integrated into business processes and systems to enhance efficiency. Lead collaborative efforts with EA Experiences teams to understand their business, processes, opportunities, and challenges. Identify opportunities for developing creative AI solutions that enable our teams to focus on creative and innovative work that keeps our fans at the center of what we do. Be an AI evangelist, promoting the use of AI as a force‑multiplier. Qualifications 4+ years of experience rapidly prototyping and deploying robust production solutions incorporating software engineering, infrastructure, architectural, and security best practices. Experience using agentic AI software engineering solutions such as Cursor. Extensive experience engineering AI solutions and excellent working knowledge of: Prompt and context engineering AI agents, agentic architectures, tool calling, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) AI assistants, RAG, embeddings, and vector databases Model tuning, evaluation, benchmarking, and guardrails A comprehensive understanding of architecture and design principles, and cloud services, such as: AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud services Enterprise architecture and microservices design Observability and telemetry Infrastructure as code and CI/CD Experience navigating the legal, ethical, and security implications for AI. Thrive working both collaboratively and independently. Excellent creative, critical thinking, and problem‑solving skills. Enjoy and prioritize continual learning, stay up to date with the newest technologies and solutions, and can understand how they can benefit EA Experiences. Demonstrated ability to clearly and succinctly articulate complex concepts at a senior level. Experience integrating AI solutions specifically with AAA Console/PC games and businesses is beneficial. Pay Transparency - North America Compensation & 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). * Washington (depending on location e.g., Seattle vs. Spokane) $149,200 - $205,500 USD In the U.S., 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 a 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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr