Technical UI Designer (Unreal Engine)

Location: Remote on a globally distributed team

Salary: $120,000–$146,000 per year in California

Company

Game studio developing the next title in the Subnautica franchise and creating accessible, engaging games for players worldwide.

What you will do

• Own UI implementation from wireframes through final polish across all target platforms.
• Build widgets, structures, classes, and data-driven components supporting gameplay needs.
• Implement responsive animations and interactive behavior driven by gameplay events, player input, and UI states.
• Collaborate with UI/UX design, UI art, technical design, and engineering to deliver functional, performant, accessible interfaces.
• Advise on Blueprint versus native-code implementation, architecture, workflows, and structure.
• Optimize and debug UMG and Blueprint issues while improving UI pipelines, documentation, and organization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Technical UI Designer, including at least one shipped Unreal Engine title in this role.
• Proficiency with UMG, Blueprints, and Enhanced Input.
• Strong understanding of Unreal UI architecture, lifecycle events, state management, and UI performance.
• Experience creating animated, responsive, data-driven UI components such as HUDs, health bars, popups, and action prompts.
• Knowledge of UI/UX, game usability, interaction design, visual design, and modern video game UI practices.
• Strong debugging, documentation, communication, organization, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Programming experience in C++, C#, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with Photoshop or Illustrator, UMG Viewmodels, UI materials, and 3D models in UI.
• Experience with early access release models.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time remote work with a globally distributed team.
• Annual professional development support.
• Home office stipend.
• Paid time off for volunteer and nonprofit work.
• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations and equal employment opportunities.