Senior VFX Engineer: Real-Time Unity Effects (Remote)

Jobgether SRL; España; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Annual team retreats

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Senior VFX Engineer based in Spain to lead real-time visual effects across a major Unity3D game project. You will own critical runtime systems, develop shaders with HLSL and Shader Graph, and collaborate closely with artists and engineers to balance visual fidelity with performance.

You will prototype new rendering approaches, build artist-facing tools, and drive production-ready solutions while ensuring scalability and maintainability across platforms including mobile.

Qualifications

• Strong professional experience with HLSL shader programming and real-time VFX development.
• Fluency with node-based shader tools such as Unity Shader Graph or Amplify.
• Strong knowledge of real-time rendering concepts including blending, transparency, sorting, depth, and instancing.
• Proven experience shipping particle-based effects in Unity with Shuriken or equivalents.
• Experience designing scalable runtime systems for high-frequency effects and performance budgeting.
• Strong C# skills in gameplay, engine, or performance-critical systems.
• Experience with ECS/DOTS, Jobs, Burst is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable runtime systems for high-frequency gameplay effects including pooling and batching.
• Design and implement shaders using HLSL, Shader Graph, Amplify, or comparable technologies.
• Build and optimize particle-based effects with mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, and GPU-driven approaches.
• Create artist-facing Unity tools, inspectors, validators, and batch workflows.
• Optimize VFX for mobile and performance-constrained platforms, focusing on GPU usage and memory budgets.
• Collaborate with VFX Artists, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Prototype new rendering approaches and bring successful solutions to production, establishing standards.
• Review and improve systems while leaving maintainable, reusable technology for the team.

Skills

VFX engineering

Shader programming

C# programming

Real-time rendering

Optimization

Cross-team collaboration

English fluency

Tools

Unity

Shader Graph

Amplify

Shuriken

ECS/DOTS

Burst

Job description

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Senior VFX Engineer based in Spain to lead real-time visual effects across a major Unity3D game project. You will own critical runtime systems, develop shaders with HLSL and Shader Graph, and collaborate closely with artists and engineers to balance visual fidelity with performance.

You will prototype new rendering approaches, build artist-facing tools, and drive production-ready solutions while ensuring scalability and maintainability across platforms including mobile.