Senior Graphics Engineer - Visual features

The opportunity
Unity Graphics is on a mission to rapidly advance innovation across our entire graphics stack, delivering the perfect balance of performance, quality, and the widest possible device reach. We are looking for a Graphics Engineer with a passion for continuous learning and collaboration, with a drive to democratize high-performance graphics for creators at every scale. In this role, you'll help us push the Universal Render Pipeline's capabilities to the next level, implement key features of our next-generation GPU-driven rendering pipeline, and address developer pain points. With the Unity runtime being installed on over 3.5 billion devices worldwide, this is a unique opportunity to shape the developer experience of the most widely used game engine in the world.

What you'll be doing

• Implement new rendering features in URP, such as advanced lighting, post-processing, and enhanced material workflows that scale across all platforms.

• Help engineer our next-generation GPU-driven pipeline, helping to build systems that minimize CPU overhead.

• Optimize rendering systems across all 20+ supported platforms, identifying and fixing bottlenecks to ensure we remain the performance leader.

• Help maintain our core rendering systems by diagnosing and fixing bugs, ensuring stability and reliability for our developers.

What we're looking for

• Graphics programming in C++, with a grasp of 3D math, rendering algorithms, and shader languages.

• Understanding of rendering pipelines, GPU architecture, and performance optimization techniques.

• Debugging experience in a multithreaded environment, ideally multi-platform with tools such as Visual Studio, RenderDoc, XCode, JetBrains Rider.

• Proficiency with performance analysis tools such as PIX, Superluminal, NVIDIA Nsight, Apple Instruments, or Android GPU Inspector.

• Able to work in a diverse, distributed team and is motivated to help our entire developer community succeed.

You might also have

• Experience working on a commercial real-time rendering engine or similar large-scale interactive graphics application.

• Familiarity with Unity's rendering architecture or related systems.

• Working knowledge of modern graphics APIs (e.g., DirectX 12, Vulkan, Metal) and shader language models (SM5.x, 6.x, Slang).

• Knowledge of C#. Experience implementing shaders or various rendering techniques.

• Knowledge with data-driven architecture.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position

• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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