Lead UI Engineer

Activision

As a foundational member of the UI team, you’ll be driving UI technology and realization of our brand new, narrative, open-world game and IP.

Taking the ownership of the UI system, driving its implementation to deliver a best-in-class AAA experience for our players;
Supporting gameplay designers in achieving an interesting and thematically appropriate realization of UI of the game;
Anticipating, identifying, and addressing potentials both for improving our game experience, workflows, or scalability across all parts of production;
Having a clear idea of how our product should function and the ability to share this vision with your peers and other stakeholders.;
Mentoring and collaborating with fellow team members of the team.

7+ years of professional game engineering experience;
Fully implemented and maintained UI systems in a shipped AAA title;
Demonstrated ability to manage your own work and to meet deadlines;
Experience with writing fast, easy-to-use UI systems that interface with existing gameplay systems;
Strong knowledge of C/C++ programming including advanced topics such as multi-threading, atomics, optimizations, and similar;
Knowledge of 3D math;
Thorough understanding of common data structures and algorithmic solutions.;
The ability to collaborate and thrive as part of a creative team;
Creativity in problem solving and a positive, respectful team-first attitude;
Comfort with self-critique and accepting outside feedback;
A habit of regularly playing and understanding modern video games.

Demonstrated ability to lead teams and to coordinate work with other domains;
Experience with scaling UI to work on different devices and screen sizes;
Experience with diegetic UI and trade-offs compared to more traditional UI approaches;
Experience with 1st person vs 3rd UI considerations;
Understanding challenges of developing a multiplayer game;
Expertise in any of popular UI middle-ware/libraries: CoherentUI, Scaleform, NoesisGUI, UMG;
Enjoyment of playing a variety of video game genres and titles.

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