Jobs at 2K

Design gameplay user experiences from concept through implementation. Responsibilities include defining UX vision, creating personas, user journeys, wireframes, flow diagrams, prototypes, and design systems; collaborating with UI artists, engineers, technical designers, and game designers; validating usability and accessibility; and supporting technical execution in game engines.

Create high-fidelity UI assets including icons, menus, HUDs, and motion graphics concepts for games. Lead UI asset integration, scalable pipelines, technical implementation, performance optimization, localization, and multi-platform layouts. Collaborate with UX designers, UI engineers, technical designers, and leads to deliver complete features. Establish visual standards and style guides, communicate artistic rationale, manage workflows, and mentor other artists.

Optimize GPU, CPU, memory, streaming, rendering, and platform performance for a multiplatform Unreal Engine 5 AAA game. Build cook and runtime systems supporting scalable content across PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X|S, and minimum-specification PC. Define performance standards with rendering engineers and technical artists, implement platform-specific rendering features, analyze shaders and pipelines, and resolve technical requirements for 60+ FPS quality and 120+ FPS performance modes.

Leads backend engineering teams building and operating studio-hosted services for a live multiplayer game. Owns service architecture, infrastructure, APIs, deployment, monitoring, incident response, performance, disaster recovery, and platform integrations. Manages planning, hiring, engineering standards, releases, CI/CD, and on-call operations while contributing code and technical designs. Requires extensive server-side development experience, backend leadership on a shipped AAA title, and expertise in scalable distributed systems and AWS production services.

Leads the strategy and execution of external game development partnerships for a AAA project. Builds outsourcing pipelines, workflows, trackers, briefs, review processes, and onboarding systems; sources and negotiates with vendors; manages budgets, forecasts, schedules, contracts, milestones, quality, risk, and reporting. Partners with production, art, discipline leads, legal, procurement, IT, and leadership while developing the external development function and future team.

Drive complex multiplayer game features from concept through implementation, focusing on economy design, reward systems, player progression, and systemic content. Collaborate cross-functionally, implement and iterate features in Unreal Engine, analyze economy models, respond to feedback, provide design leadership, mentor peers, and align stakeholders around feature goals and game quality.

Develop and optimize shaders, master materials, and technical art pipelines in Unreal Engine. Establish shader standards, build validation tools, profile performance, resolve content pipeline issues, and create reusable documentation and best practices. Collaborate across art, engineering, design, animation, and lighting teams to solve production challenges and deliver visually rich experiences across console, PC, and mobile platforms.

Lead the design, implementation, optimization, and maintenance of scalable in-game UI systems using Unreal Engine, Blueprints, UMG, AngelScript, and UI Materials. Translate UX designs into performant implementations, establish UI architecture and workflow standards, collaborate with multidisciplinary game development teams, evaluate new tools, and mentor technical designers. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps, hiring, onboarding, and building the studio’s technical UI function.

Develops high-quality character concepts from exploration through production-ready designs, including sketches, turnarounds, and documentation. Translates ambiguous creative briefs into visual solutions aligned with narrative, gameplay, and art direction. Defines character design standards, collaborates with art and cross-disciplinary teams to support 3D production, mentors artists, improves workflows, and independently manages complex assignments.

The Expert UI Engineer will lead UI development for a AAA multiplayer game, focusing on performance, accessibility, and certification compliance while mentoring a team of engineers.

Leads a multiplayer game feature team by setting design objectives, managing and mentoring designers, defining sprint and milestone priorities, evaluating gameplay, and coordinating cross-functional execution. The role requires expertise in multiplayer systems, competitive PvP design, gameplay theory, feedback analysis, tradeoff management, Unreal Engine, and Blueprint visual scripting.

Lead online services for a AAA free-to-play cross-platform game: set technical vision, manage backend and build teams, own release management, launch readiness, observability and incident response, partner with product and analytics to deliver experimentation, telemetry, remote config, and engagement tooling, and direct frontend systems like authentication, matchmaking, social features, commerce, and player safety.

Lead the DevOps team for WWE 2K by defining technical strategy and building reliable development and production infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, cloud and containerized environments, developer tooling, observability, documentation, and operational standards. The role also requires cross-team collaboration, technical leadership, and improving workflows across a distributed game development studio.