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Senior UI Engineer
10 months ago
We are assembling a dream team of exceptional developers with a shared vision for a powerful new game built around the pillars of hope, humor, and human empowerment. We aim to create an industry phenomenon by leveraging our team's proven track record for building narrative-driven sandbox games that create strong emotional engagement through empathy, positivity, and community participation on a global scale. Reaching that potential requires building a singular studio of unique personalities and experiences to create a one-of-a-kind work culture. We love quirks, we embrace oddities, and we trust that our world is extraordinary when it's a little off-beat and a lot unusual. We know the people we are looking for rarely exist in the same place, which is why we are a fully distributed team allowing everyone to work from their home base of choice.
Crop Circle Games is seeking a Senior UI Engineer to create intuitive player features, responsive controls, menus, the HUD, and more, with player joy and accessibility in mind. Reporting to the Lead Gameplay Engineer, you will be collaborating with art, design, and engineering teams in building our fantastically weird world. This is an exciting opportunity to be an early member of the team that will define a new IP's user experience on PC and consoles.
Core Responsibilities & Objectives
- Partner with UX designers and UI artists to determine functional, accessibility, and aesthetic requirements
- Work independently to architect C++ UI systems and elements
- Polish UI prototypes with attention to consistent quality, design, performance, and platform compliance
Core Traits (Skills, Knowledge, Experience)
- Deep understanding and passion for UI de velopment , usability , and accessibility
- Excellent programming fundamentals and C++ skills
- Familiarity with UI architecture design patterns, their benefits, and tradeoffs
- Recent experience with Unreal Slate, UMG, Blueprint, and input systems
- Experience profiling and optimizing UI code and content
- Proficient with linear algebra
- Empathetic and supportive collaborator across many disciplines and experience levels
- Problem solver with excellent communication skills
- Experience with Unreal Common UI
- Experience with PC and console platforms
- Game accessibility experience
- Experience working on an online, multiplayer game
- Close vision to monitors and screens, consistently working on computer equipment such as keyboards and monitors, lengthy periods of sitting
- Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions
Crop Circle Games is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, marital status, medical condition(s), national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances, or common human decency.