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UI Engineer II
Job Description:
- We have an exciting opportunity for a UI Engineer to join our team. Our AAA video game boasts a robust UI screen count across many different new and legacy features. This is an exciting and rare opportunity to impact the future of one of the industry’s most successful franchises through your talent, creativity, technical ability and knowledge.
Ideal candidate:
- A detail-oriented UI developer, troubleshooter, and problem solver who will help deliver an industry-leading HUD and front-end UI. Creating real-time UI can be technically complex and we do expect a technically adept engineer who can quickly adapt to in-house tools and script environments.
- We are located in Redmond (Washington), just outside of Seattle. The Seattle area is a major hub for the tech and gaming industries. With beautiful mountain ranges, diverse wildlife, great hiking/biking trails, and a thriving arts culture, Seattle offers a variety of options to enjoy your life outside of work.
Job Responsibilities:
- Implement complex UI screens for interactive game features including data-driven dynamic layouts, animations, and transitions
- Assist with troubleshooting UI artist issues with tooling and content authoring pipelines
- Contribute to a visual library of XAML components for use in UI screens
- Collaborate with a dynamic team of technical UI artists, designers, and other developers to deliver in-game UI screens
- Recommend improvements that help develop dependable UI content workflows through acquiring deep knowledge of our UI content data flow, tooling, and rendering techniques
- Benchmark, debug, and optimize UI, while balancing visuals and performance
Qualifications:
- BS/BA degree in Graphic Design, User Interface, Art, Computer Science or a related field
- Extensive experience with XAML and Microsoft Blend
- Familiarity with C++ is beneficial but not required
- Portfolio that demonstrates examples of problem solving and UI intuition across a variety of projects
- Experience shipping content with limited performance budget
- Interest in accessibility and multi-platform scalable UI is preferred
Compensation:
- $53.33 - $63.33/hr (W2/Non-Exempt)
