Senior Graphics Engineer Shader system team

Brighton - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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. As a Senior Graphics Engineer on the Shader Systems team you will be an integral part of collaborating with others within Unity Graphics to improve tooling and workflows for graphics engineers and shader authors. This position will see you tackle problems across our shader tech stack from runtime variant handling to supporting our cross-platform shader compiler systems and building new ways for developers to define and improve their shader workflows.

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 youll be doing

Develop build and maintain high-quality and performant systems for managing and compiling shaders
Help maintain our shader systems by diagnosing and fixing bugs ensuring stability and reliability for our users whilst improving performance testability and stability.
Work with multi-functional teams to bring new engine features to all platforms
Enable Unity shaders to work across platforms render pipelines and performance levels

What were looking for

Demonstrated programming skills in C and experience of modern shader languages (HLSL/GLSL/Slang)
Knowledge of real-time 3D graphics concepts and modern graphics APIs.
Ability to collaborate with developers customers and leadership both verbally and via documentation
Someone who thrives in a diverse distributed team and is motivated to help our entire developer community succeed.

You might also have

Understanding of modern engine systems rendering architectures and experience of working on real-world productions or large multi-platform engines
Understanding of modern shader compilers (DXC Slang) IL such as DXIL and SPIR-V or shading languages such as HLSL/GLSL/MSL/Slang.
Familiarity with the Unity engine C# programming and writing production shaders
Familiarity with asset management import and build pipelines
Familiarity with performance profiling and a performance by default mindset

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 1000 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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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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The opportunityUnity 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. As a Senior Graphics Engineer on the Shader Systems team you will be an integral part of collaborat...