2 months ago
Base Salary
$134k - $198k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical direction for the UI of a AAA multiplayer project and leadership for the UI engineering team.
- Design and implement flexible, scalable, accessible, and high-performance UI systems using Unreal Engine frameworks.
- Manage asynchronous asset handling and integration with latent backend services such as inventory, matchmaking, and live telemetry.
- Optimize UI performance, memory budgets, GPU usage, and high-framerate experiences across display devices and consoles.
- Ensure UI implementations satisfy first-party PlayStation and Xbox certification requirements.
- Build globally deployable UI supporting text scaling, diverse fonts, complex string tables, and right-to-left languages.
- Implement accessibility features and data-driven, server-configurable UI layouts and live content.
- Mentor UI engineers, conduct code reviews, and improve UI/UX development workflows.
- Collaborate with design, production, engineering, and cross-disciplinary teams on new features.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional game programming experience.
- At least two shipped AAA titles in a Senior or Lead UI role.
- Deep knowledge of Unreal Engine UI systems, including CommonUI, UMG, Slate, and MVVM patterns.
- Expert C++ programming skills involving asynchronous data handling, memory management, and C++/Blueprint interoperability.
- Direct experience resolving UI-related console certification issues for PlayStation and/or Xbox.
- Practical understanding of the Unreal material pipeline for performant UI materials and shaders.
- Live-service or free-to-play experience with commerce UI, dynamic content delivery, and player conversion funnels is beneficial.
- Experience with multiplayer shooters, action RPGs, or competitive games is beneficial.
Benefits
- Regular full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
- Benefits include 14 paid holidays, 15–25 days of paid vacation or participation in a discretionary time off program, and up to 10 paid sick days annually.
- Paid parental and compassionate leave are available.
- Wellbeing, mental health, family planning through Maven, commuter, and fitness reimbursement benefits are available.
- The compensation package may include bonus or equity awards, 401(k) participation, and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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).