4 days ago
Base Salary
$156k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, iterate, maintain, debug, and optimize in-game UI systems such as widgets, menus, animations, and UI materials.
- Establish and document UI Blueprint architecture, workflows, optimization strategies, and scalable multi-platform practices.
- Translate UX designs into performant Unreal Engine implementations integrated with game systems.
- Evaluate and integrate tools and technologies that improve Experience Design across gameplay and interactive elements.
- Collaborate with UX designers, UI artists, gameplay engineers, backend developers, and audio teams.
- Build collaborative development practices across the Experience Design department.
- Mentor technical designers and cross-functional collaborators and support hiring and onboarding as the team scales.
Requirements
- Extensive experience building, debugging, and optimizing UI systems in UE4 or UE5 using Blueprints and UMG.
- Expert familiarity with UI materials, animation systems, and widget architecture.
- Ability to solve sophisticated technical and design problems and contribute to the technical roadmap for Experience Design features.
- Deep understanding of data flow, modularity, and performance in UI systems.
- Ability to independently lead initiatives, drive decisions, and own complex UI systems.
- Comfort working in fast-paced, evolving development pipelines and responding constructively to feedback.
- Prior experience shipping high-quality UI in a AAA game environment is highly desirable.
- Solid scripting and programming fundamentals such as C++ or C#.
- Experience contributing to or leading a UI technical design team.
Benefits
- The position is full-time and onsite/hybrid as indicated by the posting.
- California base pay is listed as $155,600–$230,300 per year, with potential bonus and equity excluded from this benefits summary.
- Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
- Benefits include 14 paid holidays, 15–25 days of paid vacation or eligibility for discretionary time off, and up to 10 paid sick days.
- Benefits include paid parental and compassionate leave, mental health and wellness programs, family planning support through Maven, commuter benefits, and fitness expense reimbursements.
- Eligible employees may participate in the company’s 401(k) plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
Tech Stack
Categories
Gaming
About 2K
2K develops and publishes video games for console, PC, and mobile players, selling premium titles and live-service content across major franchises. Its portfolio includes NBA 2K, BioShock, Borderlands, Sid Meier’s Civilization, XCOM, WWE 2K, and PGA TOUR 2K, built by in-house and partner studios. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Novato, California, 2K is a publishing label wholly owned by Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ: TTWO).