Manager, Graphics Engineering

3 Months ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering • $145,300 PA - $217,900 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Manager, Graphics Engineering will lead a team focused on Khronos technologies like Vulkan, WebGPU, and OpenGL within the Unity engine. This role involves enhancing and maintaining graphics APIs, collaborating with platform and GPU partners, and ensuring the team delivers stable and performant code. Key responsibilities include people management, quality assurance, planning, and technical discussions. The manager will also be involved in technical design reviews, code reviews, and building automated tests. This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.
Must have:
  • Experience in leadership, including people management, project execution and planning.
  • Strong understanding of real-time 3D graphics, C++/C#, and multithreading.
  • Proficiency in graphics APIs like OpenGL, Vulkan, or WebGPU.
  • Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with an interest in rendering and cross-platform development.
  • Ability to coach and mentor developers to diagnose bugs and performance issues.
Good to have:
  • Experience in development for multiple platforms (Mobile, XR and Console).
  • Working knowledge of other platform APIs.
  • Project management experience.
  • Hands-on experience working with Unity.

Job Details

The opportunity
We are looking for a manager to join the Graphics Drivers and Kernel team specialising in Khronos technologies including Vulkan, WebGPU, and OpenGL. We work on the graphics hardware abstraction layer at the heart of the Unity engine. You will lead a team of graphics developers to enhance and maintain the graphics APIs that connect Unity with key hardware, with a focus on supporting and developing state of the art features for the current and future platforms Unity supports!

This role allows you to have a direct impact on how the engine takes advantage of graphics hardware features, and includes some collaboration with major platform and GPU partners. Our ideal candidate will have a deep knowledge of graphics and a passion for developing features, building relationships, and organising a team of developers to fulfil their passion delivering stable and performant code that will be used by a broad range of users.

What you'll be doing

  • Own people management, delivery, quality, and planning for support for Vulkan, WebGPU, and OpenGL developers.
  • Own quality for Khronos APIs and design and implement processes to improve performance, testability and stability.
  • Work with partners/stakeholders to understand requirements, plan work, communicate progress and collaboratively solve problems that arise.
  • Participate in technical discussions with our platform and GPU partners,
  • Engage in technical design reviews, code reviews and build automated tests for new features.

What we're looking for

  • Some prior experience with leadership which may include ownership of people management, project execution, quality assurance, planning, or project management processes.
  • Solid understanding of real-time 3D graphics programming with a good knowledge of modern GPU architecture, C++/C#, and multithreading.
  • Proficiency with graphics APIs such as OpenGL, Vulkan or WebGPU.
  • Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with a keen interest in rendering and cross platform development.
  • Ability to coach and mentor developers to diagnose bugs and performance issues using industry standard tools.

You might also have

  • Experience of development for multiple platforms. Mobile, XR and Console are especially of interest.
  • Working knowledge of other platform APIs.
  • Project management experience.
  • Hands-on experience working with Unity.

Additional information

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

Life at Unity
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.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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Gross pay salary
$145,300$217,900 USD

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