Senior Software Engineer, Adaptive Performance

Unity Enterprise; København; Hybrid; DKK 639,000 - 959,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Generous vacation and personal days

Commute subsidy

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Senior Software Developer for the Adaptive Performance team to tackle complex performance challenges across devices and platforms. You will work with C# and C++ on Unity, native code, graphics, and device-specific tech to shape the next generation of adaptive performance.

You’ll profile CPU/GPU/memory and help translate performance data into actionable improvements, mentor others, and contribute to design, implementation, and testing across Unity and partner technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong software development experience with C# and C++, including large and unfamiliar codebases.
• Deep understanding of CPU, GPU, memory, threading, and runtime performance.
• Hands-on experience with profiling and diagnostic tools, such as Unity Profiler, Xcode Instruments, Perfetto, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Investigate CPU, GPU, memory, thermal, and runtime performance issues across Unity and supported platforms.
• Design and develop Adaptive Performance features that improve runtime stability, efficiency, and developer insights.
• Profile applications and engine workloads to identify bottlenecks and turn performance data into actionable solutions.
• Collaborate with Unity teams, platform holders, hardware partners, OEMs, and customers.
• Contribute to technical design, implementation, testing, code reviews, mentoring, and AI-assisted performance workflows.

Skills

C#

C++

Profiling

Debugging

Communication

Tools

Unity Profiler

Xcode Instruments

Perfetto

RenderDoc

Job description

Unity is seeking a Senior Software Developer for the Adaptive Performance team to tackle complex performance challenges across devices and platforms. You will work with C# and C++ on Unity, native code, graphics, and device-specific tech to shape the next generation of adaptive performance.

You’ll profile CPU/GPU/memory and help translate performance data into actionable improvements, mentor others, and contribute to design, implementation, and testing across Unity and partner technologies.