Senior Technical UI Designer
Epic Games 🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The Senior Technical UI Designer will implement UI systems design in Unreal Engine, build rapid prototypes, and enhance workflows. They will collaborate with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Programmers to deliver features to millions of users.
Responsibilities
- Work on UI Systems Design, breaking down features and wireframes into necessary widgets, materials, and input navigation
- Increase UI performance by ensuring best practices are being followed by colleagues
- Learn to profile performance and costs of UMG/Slate/C++/and texture memory
- Implement blueprint logic when presentation logic calls for it
- Assist UI Artists in implementing special presentation behavior
- Consult with UI Programmers on what logic will be in blueprint vs native code
- Debug blueprints/UMG issues quickly using various tools and techniques
- Find ways to assist UX, UI Art, and UI Programming in organization, documentation, and building workflow improvements
Requirements
- Experience in building UI and experiences in game engines and across multiple platforms
- Professional experience using Adobe Suite, especially Photoshop and Illustrator
- Engine experience, such as Custom engine, Unity, Unreal Engine, Lumberyard, or Snowdrop
- Understanding of game industry 3D-package experience, such as 3D Studio or Maya
- Eye for pixel-perfect UI and ability to translate and spot potential issues with mockups
- Logical problem solver with excellent written and communication skills
- Ability to "translate" communication across departments and empathize with non-technical team members
Key Skills
- UI design
- UX design
- Unreal Engine
- Adobe Suite
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Game development
- Game math
- Basic algebra
- Geometry
- Programming principles
- C++
- Blueprint logic
- UMG
- Slate
- Texture memory
- Performance profiling
- Debugging
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Empathy
Benefits
- 100% paid benefits for employees and dependents
- Coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance
- Weekly indemnity (short term disability) and retirement savings plan with competitive employer match
- EAP (employee assistance program) and mental well-being program through Modern Health
About Epic Games
Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
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