Staff Graphics Engineer

The opportunity

Unity’s graphics drivers team is the foundation of all rendering at Unity. From the billions of mobile games, PC and console titles, XR experiences, or other real-time rendering applications, every pixel Unity renders flows through our code. We are the ultimate cross-platform engineering team, doing graphics on virtually every graphically-capable device in the marketplace today.

Our team is responsible for the application interface to the graphics hardware, which we implement using industry-standard graphics APIs like Vulkan, Direct3D, Metal, and WebGPU, to name a few. From the simplest cube to the most complex scene rendered with Unity’s high-definition rendering pipeline (HDRP), the graphics drivers team along with their shader compiler colleagues bring the hardware to life.

What you'll be doing

• Review, advise, design, and enhance Unity’s 3D rendering engine across the multiple graphics APIs (e.g., Vulkan, Direct3D, Metal, etc.) and operating systems (e.g., Microsoft Windows, Apple’s macOS and iOS, Linux, and Android)

• Collaborate with other Unity R&D organizations to support and advise on the development and maintenance of our rendering approaches and pipelines

• Support and develop testing, optimization frameworks, and other diagnostic tools to maintain product quality and performance

What we're looking for

• Minimum of a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related scientific discipline, or equivalent experience

• At least ten years working with computer graphics rendering techniques including geometric rendering, lighting and illumination, texture mapping, and compute shading

• At least eight years of C++ programming experience using classes, templates, and polymorphism

• Ability to implement, debug, and optimize complex algorithms, shaders, and rendering sequences

• Excellent communication skills

You might also have

• Knowledge of modern graphics APIs (Vulkan/Metal/DX12)

• Experience with RenderDoc, Pix, NVIDIA’s nSight, and similar tools

• C# development experience

• Experience using Unity’s editor and tools

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 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.

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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

$168,900—$221,655 USD