Technical UI / UX Designer (10-month Contract)

Blackbird Interactive is looking for an experienced Technical UI / UX Designer to support the hands-on adaptation of a large, established simulation game to new platforms and display environments. This role is strongly implementation-focused, centering on directly modifying, rebuilding, and integrating existing UI systems to support new resolutions, input methods, and platform constraints, while preserving usability, clarity, and the core player experience.

You’ll work closely with design, engineering, art, and production to actively implement and refactor UI screens, flows, and interactions, ensuring they feel native to the target platform. This role sits firmly at the intersection of design and engineering, requiring practical experience working inside UI systems, strong technical fluency, and a deep understanding of how interfaces behave across different screen sizes, control schemes, and performance profiles. If you enjoy getting your hands dirty in UI tools, solving real-world platform challenges, and making complex interfaces feel intuitive and robust, this role could be a great fit for you!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design, engineering, and production to adapt existing UI systems for new platforms, resolutions, and input methods while preserving established gameplay workflows.
• Design, adjust, and implement UI layouts that scale effectively across a wide range of screen sizes, aspect ratios, and viewing distances.
• Work hands-on within the UI toolset to modify, extend, and debug UI screens, flows, and interactions to meet platform-specific requirements.
• Partner closely with engineers to ensure UI performance, responsiveness, and technical stability across target platformsIdentify UX friction introduced by platform changes (controller input, navigation paradigms, readability at distance) and propose practical, implementable solutions.
• Maintain consistency with existing UI style, hierarchy, and interaction patterns while making necessary adjustments for usability and accessibility.
• Test UI thoroughly in-game, diagnosing layout issues, navigation problems, and edge cases, and iterating to improve clarity and player experience.
• Create and maintain clear documentation to communicate UI changes, constraints, and best practices to cross-disciplinary partners

Requirements

Pluses

$90,000 - $110,000 a year