Cross-Platform Graphics Kernel Engineer

Unity; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 89,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Retirement plans

Generous vacation

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Graphics Engineer to join the Graphics Kernel API team in Montreal. You will help define and maintain a cross-driver API abstraction that unifies backend backends like D3D12, Vulkan, Metal, and more, while supporting validation and conformance testing.

The role emphasizes real-time graphics, multi-threaded C++, and collaboration with driver teams to ensure efficient, testable, and well-documented APIs across multiple platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and multi-threaded C++.
• Solid understanding of real-time 3D graphics programming and GPU architecture.
• Ability to diagnose bugs and performance issues with industry-standard tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the common API layer and the cross-driver abstraction beneath it across D3D12, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU and console backends.
• Contribute to the validation layer and conformance test suite to ensure consistent contracts across drivers.
• Collaborate with lower-level driver teams to ensure API additions are practical and performant.

Skills

C++

Multi-threading

Real-time graphics

Tools

D3D12

Vulkan

Metal

Job description

Unity is seeking a Graphics Engineer to join the Graphics Kernel API team in Montreal. You will help define and maintain a cross-driver API abstraction that unifies backend backends like D3D12, Vulkan, Metal, and more, while supporting validation and conformance testing.

The role emphasizes real-time graphics, multi-threaded C++, and collaboration with driver teams to ensure efficient, testable, and well-documented APIs across multiple platforms.