Senior Unreal UI Tech Artist: Motion, Materials & VFX

EPAM Systems Inc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior UI Tech Artist to define the technical art systems, materials, and motion language that elevate UI across a game experience. You will create polished, performant UI tech art solutions in Unreal Engine and mentor UI artists while balancing visual fidelity and platform performance.

You will lead the creation of cohesive UI patterns, drive cross‑platform optimization, and own tooling and asset management to improve team efficiency.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience as Technical Artist/UI Tech Artist/VFX Artist with UI front-end game experience.
• Proven mentoring experience supporting UI artists and visual designers.
• Strong cross-platform planning balancing fidelity and performance constraints.
• Advanced Unreal Engine 5 skills including Material Editor, Niagara, and Blueprints.
• Expert Sequencer knowledge for animated transitions and cinematic camera moves.
• Familiarity with UMG and how UI logic interacts with materials and VFX systems.

Responsibilities

• Define UI tech art systems, templates, thematics, and principles for forward-looking UI.
• Craft polished UI tech art solutions using materials, UMG, animation, FX, lighting, and camera tools in UE4/5.
• Build consistent visual patterns for motion, FX, UI transitions, scale, and proportion.
• Establish a cohesive motion language that unifies UI behavior across screens and states.
• Plan UI tech art approaches across platforms to balance visual fidelity and performance.
• Own UI tech art tooling and asset management to improve team efficiency and consistency.
• Create animated transitions and cinematic camera moves using Sequencer.
• Implement spatial and diegetic UI solutions that blend 3D and UI through framing and post-processing.
• Optimize shaders, materials, textures, and VFX to meet performance targets.
• Profile runtime performance and diagnose bottlenecks in UI rendering and effects.
• Partner with UX/UI and visual design to add technical polish such as hover states and micro-interactions.
• Mentor UI artists and visual designers through reviews, best practices, and reusable patterns.

Skills

UI tech art experience

Mentoring UI artists

Cross-platform planning

Real-time VFX for UI

English proficiency (B2)

Tools

Unreal Engine 5

Material Editor

Niagara

Blueprints

Sequencer

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior UI Tech Artist to define the technical art systems, materials, and motion language that elevate UI across a game experience. You will create polished, performant UI tech art solutions in Unreal Engine and mentor UI artists while balancing visual fidelity and platform performance.

You will lead the creation of cohesive UI patterns, drive cross‑platform optimization, and own tooling and asset management to improve team efficiency.