Graphics Engineer

Unity Technologies; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Stratford-upon-Avon seeks a Graphics Engineer to enhance GPU-driven rendering capabilities and improve existing graphics systems. The role involves working with C++ and C# within a collaborative team to optimize rendering performance. Candidates should possess strong software engineering skills, experience with shader languages, and the ability to communicate effectively. Exceptional benefits and a commitment to diversity are offered.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance

Commute subsidy

Employee stock ownership

Competitive retirement/pension plans

Generous vacation and personal days

Mental Health and Wellbeing programs

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals required.
• Expertise with C++, C#, and shader languages such as HLSL.
• Experience in profiling and optimizing performance.

Responsibilities

• Working as a Graphics engineer on GPU‑driven rendering stack.
• Maintain existing systems while improving performance.
• Participate in code reviews for high-quality software.

Skills

C++

C#

Shader languages (HLSL)

Performance profiling and optimization

Teamwork and communication

Education

Strong software engineering fundamentals

Job description

Unity Engine is used by millions of creators around the world to build powerful and engaging real‑time experiences. At the heart of this is graphics, from the initial point of content creation down to the final pixels on the target device. The Graphics Middle Layer team is looking for a new team member. The team covers a wide range of areas and responsibilities; from the loading, streaming, processing and rendering of meshes to generation and selection of level of details (LOD), to efficient GPU‑driven rendering and batching, to the importing, streaming and processing of textures, to culling techniques and Entities Graphics. In all these areas the team has a big emphasis on performance and scalability. The area forms the foundation for nearly any Unity project and other engine graphics technologies. The team is part of Unity's Graphics Features and Frameworks group whose mission is to build the world’s most scalable, performant and extensible rendering platform. As a graphics engineer, you will be responsible for developing new and maintaining existing mesh and LOD loading, streaming, processing and rendering technologies, including Unity’s GPU‑driven rendering technology stack. In particular, you will be working on improving the GPU resident drawer and batching systems. You will also work on continuously improving the existing tech stacks and code base, existing APIs, and further improving performance. You will be in a position to establish Unity's future tech stack on GPU‑driven rendering, culling, mesh, LOD, and streaming technologies. We’re committed to maintaining a diverse team, and we welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Working as a Graphics engineer on our GPU‑driven rendering stack, in particular on GPU resident drawer and batching systems, and culling, spanning the full tech stack from low level to user API working on shaders and contributing code in both C++ and C#
• Maintain existing systems, improving performance, testability and stability
• Helping evolve Unity's rendering systems towards a GPU driven technology stack
• Participating in other tasks within the team on the Texture area, including working on texture streaming, Unity’s Texture API, Virtual Texturing, texture compression, texture importing, and asynchronous upload pipeline.
• Participating in code reviews to ensure only high‑quality software is committed.
• Taking part in technical discussions, investigating complex problems, researching, and collaborating on initiatives
• Closely collaborating with Product Management, Quality Assurance and UX to ensure the best possible product

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Expertise with C++, C#, and shader languages such as HLSL
• Understanding of lower‑level GPU architecture and resource management systems, including meshes and geometry
• Experience in profiling and optimizing performance.
• Working knowledge of Unity
• Great teamwork and interpersonal skills, including good communication skills and a proactive work ethic
• Passion for performance, code analysis, and debugging tools
• Willingness to jump into unfamiliar technical areas

You might also have

• Experience with GPU driven rendering technology
• Experience with streaming technologies such as mesh or texture streaming, virtual texturing, mipmap streaming, LOD or meshlet streaming
• Experience developing for mobile or console games.
• Experience with Compute Shaders / Mesh Shaders
• Experience with CPU and GPU debugging and profiling tools
• Experience with mesh clustering and clustered mesh culling
• Experience with culling technologies such as frustum, occlusion culling or cluster culling
• Experience with other Game Engines, 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.

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 1,000 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.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If you have a disability that means there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

Benefits

At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well‑being and work‑life balance. Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status. While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally:

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Support for new parents through leave and family‑care programs
• Office food snacks
• Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
• Employee Resource Groups
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Training and development programs
• Volunteering and donation matching program