Senior VFX Engineer | Unity3D | Remote | Stylized Games

Beffio is looking for an experienced Senior VFX Engineer to join a major game project developed in Unity3D.

This role sits between VFX Technical Art Rendering and Engineering focusing on the technology and scalable runtime systems behind real-time effects.

We are looking for someone who can take a question like can we make it look like this and turn the visual idea into a solution that is performant reusable artist-friendly and scalable across a large game.

You will work closely with VFX Artists and Engineers on shaders particles GPU-driven effects runtime architecture tooling mobile optimization and gameplay integration.

This is a senior individual contributor role with significant technical ownership where you will be expected to prototype solutions make architectural decisions and take systems through to production.

• Develop scalable runtime systems for high-frequency gameplay effects.

• Build solutions for pooling shared emitters batching prioritization and effect budgets.

• Develop shaders using HLSL Shader Graph Amplify or similar tools.

• Work with particle systems mesh particles trails flipbooks procedural effects and GPU-driven techniques.

• Build artist-facing Unity tools validators custom inspectors asset processors and batch workflows.

• Optimize effects for mobile GPUs memory overdraw shader complexity and runtime performance.

• Collaborate with VFX Artists Technical Artists Gameplay Engineers and Rendering Engineers.

• Prototype new technical approaches and take successful solutions through to production.

• Establish reusable templates documentation and technical standards for the VFX team.

• Strong HLSL shader programming experience.

• Fluency with node-based tools such as Shader Graph Amplify or similar.

• Strong understanding of real-time rendering including blending transparency sorting depth instancing and scriptable or custom render pipelines.

• Experience shipping particle-based effects in Unity using Shuriken or equivalent systems.

• Experience with mesh particles trails flipbooks and shader-driven effects.

• Experience designing scalable effect runtimes for high-frequency effects including pooling batching prioritization or budget management.

• Strong C# gameplay or engine programming experience.

• Experience with ECS/DOTS Jobs Burst or equivalent performance-focused architecture is strongly preferred.

• Strong understanding of mobile GPU optimization including overdraw half precision texture budgets memory and shader variants.

• Unity editor tooling experience including custom inspectors drawers asset processors or batch tools.

• Understanding of Metal Vulkan and GLES including platform-specific graphics limitations and shader or PSO warmup.

• Strong communication skills across both artistic and engineering disciplines.

• Fluent English.

• Strong Unity DOTS/Entities experience.

• Experience with ECS-based rendering or instanced material properties.

• Compute shaders and GPU-driven effects.

• Vertex animation techniques.

• SDFs procedural noise and procedural rendering.

• Experience with procedural or voxel geometry dynamic meshes hull generation or custom lighting systems.

• Networked gameplay effects including predicted versus confirmed events.

• Experience with multiplayer or large-scale gameplay systems.

• Strong artistic eye and ability to participate in VFX look development.

• Experience building effects for mobile or other performance-constrained platforms.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Act as a bridge between artists and engineers.

• Independently turn creative requests into workflows and technology that scale.

• Prototype solutions quickly validate them technically and take them through to production.

• Make informed technical decisions balancing visual ambition with runtime performance.

• Review and improve systems created by others.

• Leave behind clean systems templates documentation and standards that make the whole team more effective.

• Meaningful ownership over the technology powering VFX on a major Unity3D game project.

• Direct collaboration with experienced VFX Artists Technical Artists Rendering Engineers and Gameplay Engineers.

• The opportunity to solve challenging rendering and performance problems.

• A role where engineering directly enables creative ambition.

• A highly collaborative international team.

• Fully remote work.

• Flexible contract options depending on location.

• Competitive compensation based on experience and contract structure.

• Annual Beffio team retreats.

• The possibility of long-term collaboration as the project grows.