UI Engineer
Job description
Vertigo Games is a leading publisher and developer of VR games. We are looking for a passionate UI Engineer to join our team based in the center of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Join us on a mission to develop and launch cutting-edge VR games internationally and help us on our quest to push the boundaries of virtual reality gaming.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with our game designers, UX designers, artists and animators to create well thought out, easy to use and eye pleasing UI for our upcoming games
- Establish and preserve consistency, authenticity and harmony across all systems, user experience and user interfaces
- Develop and create user interface screens, transitions, animations, and VFX
- Iterate and evolve UI related systems/functionality based on user feedback
Qualifications
- A passion for game development and sustainable software
- A keen eye for ‘good’ UI, its style and beauty, but also, just as important, its readability, usability and consistency
- Expert understanding of hierarchy and layout design principles
- Worked on UI for at least 1 shipped game title
- Positive attitude and an ability to receive and provide objective feedback
- Experience with Unity’s UI pipeline (after 4.6)
Plusses
- Affinity with UX design principles
- Experience with other UI frameworks (Hummingbird, Scaleform GFx, QT, IMGUI)
- Know your way in art/design software like Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop/Illustrator)
- Illustration skills to paint UI screens, frames, borders, icons, etc.
- Experience creating UI code/systems for limited platforms (VR/mobile/consoles)
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Required application materials:
- Resume
- Portfolio
- Zip file containing: multiple code samples (5+) demonstrating your code qualifications and a readme explaining them
Do not: send a full project or github that we have to browse through to find the juicy details
To apply for this position, please send the above to jobs@vertigo-games.com or use the form below.
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