Senior UI Tech Artist: Motion, Materials & Unreal Mastery

EPAM Systems, Inc.; Colombia; Remote; COP 60,000,000 - 120,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Upskilling & certification courses

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. seeks a Senior UI Technical Artist to define and scale the UI tech art language across platforms.

You will develop materials, UMG, animation, and camera tools to deliver polished, performant UI and mentor UI artists. You will mentor, optimize shaders and textures, collaborate on micro-interactions, and drive cross-platform fidelity while balancing memory and performance in a dynamic multi-team environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as Technical Artist, UI Tech Artist, or VFX Artist in games.
• Senior-level mentorship for guiding UI artists.
• Cross-platform planning balancing fidelity and performance.
• Expert Unreal Engine 5 skills, including Material Editor and Niagara.
• Advanced Sequencer for animated transitions and cinematic camera moves.
• Strong shader and UV math skills, including material functions/systems and optimization.
• Solid 3D and UI integration across cameras, lighting, framing, and post-processing.
• 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 to elevate established UX and visual designs.
• Upper-Intermediate English (B2) proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Define UI tech art systems, templates, thematics, and principles for a scalable UI style.
• Build highly polished 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.

Skills

UI Tech Art

Unreal Engine 5

Sequencer

Niagara

Shaders

UV Math

3D/UI Integration

Lighting & Post

Motion Design

Collaboration

Tools

UMG

Material Editor

Blueprints

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. seeks a Senior UI Technical Artist to define and scale the UI tech art language across platforms.

You will develop materials, UMG, animation, and camera tools to deliver polished, performant UI and mentor UI artists. You will mentor, optimize shaders and textures, collaborate on micro-interactions, and drive cross-platform fidelity while balancing memory and performance in a dynamic multi-team environment.