Tech UI Designer – EGB Position Available In Wake, North Carolina

Tech UI Designer – EGB (R26735)
Department
Art & Animation
Location
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Product
Fortnite
Company
Epic Games
Requisition ID
R26735
WHAT

MAKES US EPIC?

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.
ART
What We Do
Push your artistic talent to the limit on a team of world-class environment, character and concept artists who strive to innovate and inspire.
What You’ll Do
Epic Games is seeking talented, experienced Technical UI Designers to work on Fortnite. In this position, you will have a role as a collaborative team member implementing UI systems in Unreal engine, building rapid prototypes, layouts, visual scripting, and leveling up our workflows. You will work with UX Designers, UI Artists, and UI Engineers to ship these features to millions of users worldwide. The ideal candidate would have expertise in introductory algebra and geometry math (“Game math”), game systems, and fundamental programming principles.
In this role, you will
Work on UI Systems Design, break down feature/wireframes into necessary widgets, structures, and classes; increase UI performance by ensuring best practices are followed by colleagues
Ensure assets/UI are within memory and CPU constraints. Learning to profile performance and the costs of UMG/Slate/C++/and texture memory
Implement blueprint logic when presentation logic calls for it. Assist UI Artists where necessary in implementing special presentation behavior. Consult with UI engineers on the logic that will be in the blueprint vs native code
Debug blueprints/UMG issues quickly using various tools and techniques
Find ways to assist UX, UI Art, and UI engineering in organization, documentation, and building workflow improvements
What we’re looking for
3-6+ years of experience in building UI and experiences in game engines and across multiple platforms (mobile, web, pc, consoles) or similar transferable experience
2+ years of experience shipping updates and new features to a user base on a regular cadence or similar transferable experience
Professional experience using game engines (Custom engine, Unity, UE4, Lumberyard, Snowdrop, etc.), and preparing game assets for them. You have an eye for pixel-perfect UI, translating and spotting various potential issues with mockups as you help see the designs into the engine
You are a logical problem solver and have attention to detail
You can “translate” communication across departments (talk to engineering about UI Art needs, summarize technical issues, etc.), but also have empathy for non-technical team members and the ability to empower others on your team

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS

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EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees (EEs) and dependents (deps). Our current benefits package includes coverage for medical, dental, and life insurance. We also offer supplemental benefits including daily meal vouchers, and commuter benefits for onsite employees.