Senior UI Technical Artist (Unreal Engine)

We are seeking a Senior UI Technical Artist to define the tech art systems, materials, and motion language that unify and scale a forward-looking game UI across platforms. You will elevate visual and UX designs with polished, performant solutions and mentor UI artists.

Responsibilities

• Define UI tech art systems, templates, thematics, and principles for a scalable UI style

• Build highly polished and performant UI tech art solutions using materials, UMG, animation, FX, lighting, blueprints, and camera tools

• Establish consistent visual patterns for motion, FX, transitions, scale, and proportion

• Create animated UI transitions and cinematic camera moves using Sequencer and related tools

• Plan UI tech art adaptation across platforms, balancing fidelity, memory, and performance

• Own UI tech art tooling, pipelines, and asset management to improve team efficiency

• Mentor UI artists and visual designers to align execution with the shared motion and material language

• Integrate 3D and UI workflows, including spatial and diegetic UI, cameras, and framing

• Optimize shaders, textures, and materials through profiling and real-time performance tuning

• Collaborate with designers to refine micro-interactions and ensure a premium UI feel

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience as a Technical Artist, UI Tech Artist, or VFX Artist in games

• Senior-level mentorship skills for guiding UI artists and visual designers

• Strong cross-platform planning skills balancing visual fidelity and performance

• Expert Unreal Engine 5 skills, including Material Editor and Niagara

• Advanced Sequencer skills for animated transitions and cinematic camera moves

• Strong shader and UV math skills, including material functions/systems and optimization

• Solid 3D and UI integration skills across cameras, lighting, framing, and post-processing

• Strong real-time lighting and post-process knowledge for mood and atmosphere

• Proven motion design skills for timing, easing, micro-interactions, and hover states

• Excellent collaboration skills to elevate established UX and visual designs

• High comfort with ambiguity in exploratory iteration to find the right feel

• Upper-Intermediate English (B2) proficiency in speaking and collaboration

Nice to have

• Experience with reusable or modular VFX and material systems across large UI surfaces

• Familiarity with UMG UI logic interacting with material and VFX systems

• Experience with AI Assistants to accelerate prototyping, documentation, or tooling workflows

• Background in gaming cinematics, trailers, or environmental mood and lighting design

We offer

• International projects with top brands

• Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers

• Healthcare benefits

• Employee financial programs

• Paid time off and sick leave

• Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses

• Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses

• Global career opportunities

• Volunteer and community involvement opportunities

• EPAM Employee Groups

• Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn