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Lead UI engineering for a new game franchise by building production-quality UI systems, workflows, and tools in C++ using Unreal Engine 5. Manage and mentor UI engineers, provide technical guidance across gameplay disciplines, and collaborate with design and cross-functional teams to deliver responsive player experiences. Responsibilities include HUDs, menus, fonts, localization workflows, and developer tools.

Design and implement avatar movement, sandbox systems, customization and progression, and 3C (Character, Camera, Controls). Prototype and iterate with cross-disciplinary teams, integrate audio/animation/effects, create NPCs, and own social/cooperative gameplay systems to foster player expression and community.

Design, prototype, and implement AI enemies, combat systems, and player items for a multiplayer action game. Collaborate with cross-discipline teams to ensure readable, balanced, and compelling gameplay; establish design processes; review and iterate content with art, audio, QA, and engineering to uphold IP quality and sandbox design principles.

Senior graphics engineer responsible for building and maintaining production-quality C++ gameplay systems in Unreal Engine 5, evolving rendering systems (lighting, materials, particles, post-process, shadows), collaborating with artists to implement stylized rendering and shaders, optimizing CPU/GPU/memory performance, and diagnosing/fixing graphics and pipeline issues.

Lead the Technical Art discipline: design and deliver character rigs, pipelines, and tools; manage and mentor tech artists; optimize performance across PC and consoles; build workflows, documentation, and cross-team collaboration to support production and prototyping.

Design, build, and maintain production backend game services (sessions, matchmaking, progression). Collaborate cross-discipline, write clear technical docs, diagnose failures with logging/metrics, and participate in post-launch on-call rotations.

Lead and manage engineers to design, build, and maintain production backend game services (sessions, matchmaking, progression). Diagnose incidents, participate in on-call, collaborate with cross-discipline teams, and produce clear technical documentation.

Lead and scale an engineering organization to deliver a live-service AAA game using Unreal Engine. Define technology strategy, recruit and manage 30+ engineers (internal and co-dev), oversee senior engineering leads, coordinate releases with production, mitigate technical risks, and communicate with executives and cross-discipline stakeholders to align on product and technical goals.

Improve and maintain automated build systems for a game team. Develop build software (Unreal Engine 5, primarily C#), monitor CI/CD health, provision on‑prem and cloud build resources, troubleshoot build failures, enable internal workflows, and collaborate with release and test teams to publish builds and test results.

Lead UX/UI strategy and execution for an unannounced live-service game. Define roadmaps, deliver wireframes, flows, prototypes and design systems, collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, hire and manage UX/UI staff, and ensure player-centered experiences across multiplayer platforms.