Senior Technical UI Designer

Epic Games•Montreal, QC

About The Position

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. We design customer and user-focused experiences that are fresh and innovative, while problem solving by anticipating user behavior and hurdles. We approach the most complex of problems and address them with simple, intuitive, and useful solutions. As an experienced Senior Technical UI Designer, you will work closely with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Programmers to implement UI systems and features. Much of our work starts undefined, and you will help to shape the direction. You will raise the bar for the discipline through the standards you set, the workflows you improve, and the people you mentor. Above all, you advocate for the player experience.

Requirements

Project expert in technical UI implementation, having previously built UI in game engines that has shipped to a large audience across PC, console, and mobile on a regular basis. Comparable experience with transferable skills is welcome
Hands-on Unreal and UMG experience, or strong experience in another game engine, custom or commercial, and a real appetite to go deep in Unreal
At your best in ambiguity, quickly picking up new and sparsely documented toolsets and technologies like AI, finding a path where there is no precedent, and asking the questions no one else has thought to ask
Proven experience with data-driven UI and the separation of data from presentation, through MVVM and ViewModels or an equivalent, and have strong component-architecture instincts, designing for flexibility by nature
Strong visual eye and working knowledge of UX and UI, layout, composition, hierarchy, and interaction patterns, reflexively anticipating states, edge cases, overflow, localization, dynamic content, and responsive scaling
Strong feel for controller-first navigation and for building UI that works across input methods and platforms
Design with performance and runtime cost in mind, comfortable profiling and working to a budget
Real craft in UI materials and motion, or the adjacent skill and appetite to grow it quickly.
Translate fluidly across UX, UI Art, Programming, production, and leadership, meeting non-technical teammates where they are, and documenting work so a distributed team can build on it
Solid programming fundamentals, object-oriented design, data structures, and game systems, and you are comfortable with the math UI and motion work depend on, such as transforms, geometry, and interpolation

Responsibilities

Break a feature or wireframe down into clear, scoped tasks, surfacing unknowns and dependencies early
Prototype and prove out new UI techniques, pushing the limits of UMG and shaping the patterns the team adopts
Design robust, reusable component systems that stay flexible as designs change
Implement data-driven UI through ViewModels and view bindings, working closely with UI Programming
Build for every player, accounting for screen sizes and safe areas, localization, and accessibility
Design within performance and memory budgets, profiling the cost of UMG, Slate, C++, and texture memory
Collaborate closely with UX, UI Art, and Programming, improving workflows, pipelines, and documentation, and giving feedback as readily as you accept it

Benefits

100% paid benefits for employees and dependents
Supplemental medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Critical illness coverage
Telemedicine
Life and AD&D insurance
Weekly indemnity (short term disability)
Retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Robust mental well-being program through Modern Health (free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents)