Game Design Intern
Electronic Arts · Posted Oct 7
Video game development, digital publishing, live services, and interactive entertainment software
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About the role
EA Mobile builds high-quality, engaging experiences across a diverse portfolio of games and genres, and its Hyderabad studio is one of EA Mobile's largest development centers, spanning game design, engineering, art, experience design, production, analytics, quality, and live services. The Game Development teams build and operate live games and create new player experiences across mobile, PC, and console. This internship places you on a game team alongside experienced designers and partner disciplines to contribute to real game features and content, developing skills in systems design, content design, balancing, prototyping, live services, and player-focused problem solving.
What you will do
- Support the design of game features, systems, content, and live-service experiences.
- Turn design ideas into clear flows, rules, requirements, and design documentation.
- Participate in brainstorming and design discussions, contributing ideas for new mechanics, features, events, and player experiences.
- Playtest features and content, identify design problems, gather feedback, and iterate on solutions.
- Work with designers, engineers, artists, experience designers, product managers, analysts, and QA to take ideas from concept toward implementation.
- Use player feedback, game data, and design principles to understand how features can be improved.
- Support balancing gameplay, progression, rewards, difficulty, and other game systems.
- Research games and competitors to understand design patterns, player motivations, market trends, and opportunities for innovation.
- Contribute to live-service content such as events, challenges, progression experiences, or other recurring player activities.
- Explore how emerging tools, including AI-assisted workflows, can help improve ideation, research, prototyping, documentation, and iteration.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- A foundational understanding of game design principles, including gameplay loops, player motivation, progression, balance, feedback, challenge, and reward.
- Strong interest in building games and understanding why players find experiences engaging and fun.
- Creative and structured problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate ideas clearly through written documentation, diagrams, presentations, or prototypes.
- Curiosity, willingness to learn, and openness to feedback and iteration.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with people from different disciplines.
- Currently pursuing a degree/diploma in Game Design, Game Development, Computer Science, Interactive Media, or a related discipline, or able to demonstrate equivalent skills through personal or academic projects.
- A portfolio, playable project, prototype, game jam project, level, system design, or other game-design work that demonstrates your thinking and interest in game development.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience building games through personal projects, college projects, game jams, mods, or internships.
- Familiarity with mobile or free-to-play games and concepts such as progression, economies, engagement, retention, and live events.
- Experience using Unity or Unreal to implement prototype gameplay.
- Experience designing levels, game systems, economies, progression, quests, events, or other game content.
- A broad interest in different game genres and a habit of breaking down and analyzing the games you play.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment, developing and delivering games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile devices, and tablets. The company is widely recognized for powerhouse franchises including EA SPORTS FC, Madden NFL, Apex Legends, The Sims, and Battlefield. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, EA connects hundreds of millions of players worldwide through rich storytelling, immersive communities, and live services.
- Industry
- Gaming
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1982
- Location
- Redwood City, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $55B raised
- 2026-08-04Private Equity Buyout$55B
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
President, EA Entertainment & Central Development
Jacob Schatz
Executive Vice President of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer
Mala Singh
Chief People Officer
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