Senior Software Engineer

3 Months ago • 4-8 Years • Graphics Engineer

Job Summary

Job Description

This Senior Software Engineer role at Unity Studio Productions in Tokyo, Japan involves working directly with external game studios to build new features, interactive apps, and tools. Responsibilities include analyzing performance in customer projects, providing technical guidance, delivering high-quality code, analyzing Unity source code, and building relationships with internal development teams. The role requires expertise in C# or C++, multi-threaded code debugging, performance optimization, and software development lifecycles. Occasional travel within Japan may be required. Excellent communication skills in Japanese and good English (reading and writing) are essential. The position focuses on enhancing the fidelity and performance of gaming customer projects, leveraging Unity engineering excellence.
Must have:
  • C# or C++ expertise
  • Multi-threaded code debugging
  • Performance optimization
  • Software development lifecycle understanding
  • Excellent communication (Japanese & English)
  • Experience shipping games
Good to have:
  • Unity game development experience
  • Console/mobile game development
  • Technical talk/article writing
  • Rendering/graphics/animation knowledge

Job Details

The opportunity
We are the Unity Studio Productions team, a group of highly skilled Software Engineers and Tech Artists with deep expertise in the Unity platform. We are looking for someone to lend their proven industry experience and technical expertise to help elevate our gaming customer projects to the next level of fidelity and performance.

Your day-to-day will have you working on development services which can range in duration from one week to over a year. Learn and partner with other industry veterans to work on critical performance-sensitive projects that demonstrate Unity engineering excellence.

This role might involve occasional travel to customers’ offices and other Unity offices, primarily within Japan.

If you're a customer-focused, technically skilled leader with excellent communication skills, this job is for you!

What you'll be doing

  • Work directly with external game studios to build new features, interactive apps and tools
  • Analyse performance in our gaming customers' projects and workflows, then provide them with targeted technical guidance
  • Deliver high-quality code components to enable our partners and customers to be successful
  • Analyse Unity source code to keep your skills and knowledge up-to-date
  • Build close relationships with Unity's internal development teams, then champion developer feedback to help positively impact Unity's roadmap

What we're looking for

  • Capable of developing and debugging code written in a large multithreaded C# or C++ codebase, using a multi-platform engine (e.g. Unity, Unreal, in-house)
  • Knowledgeable on how to profile, analyse, and optimise performance, from low-level limitations to high-level architectural decisions
  • Experience in shipping multiple games or other real-time interactive applications, including a proven understanding of software development lifecycles
  • Able to guide customers by clearly communicating ideas and technical knowledge through written reports and spoken language in Japanese
  • Comfortable diving into areas outside of their expertise in order to help our customers

You might also have

  • Experience using Unity to develop games or commercial software
  • Experience in developing games for consoles or mobile devices
  • Experience in delivering training/technical talks and writing technical articles
  • Knowledge of rendering, graphics, animation, networking, profiling, or low-level performance as it pertains to game development
  • English skill: for internal communication purpose—good level of reading and writing, motivated to learn and use English

Additional information

  • International relocation support is not available for this position.

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. 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 fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. 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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