Senior Embedded Android Engineer for Real-Time Car 3D

Unity; Brighton; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock options

Pension plans

Generous vacation and personal days

Parental leave

Commuting subsidy

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Android, to own Unity’s runtime on Android in the car. You’ll work at the intersection of a high-performance 3D engine and production embedded systems, delivering into vehicles with AAOS, embedded Linux, and QNX platforms.

You’ll collaborate with automotive OEMs, optimize for constrained hardware, and help shape the next generation of Unity-powered digital cockpits and HMIs.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in C/C++/C# and multithreaded Linux/Android systems.
• Hands-on Android/AOSP development across app and platform layers (HALs, build system)
• Working knowledge of Vulkan and OpenGL ES and Android graphics stack for real‑time UI rendering
• Profiling and optimization on resource-constrained hardware using profiling tools
• Strong business-level English for customer collaboration

Responsibilities

• Bring Unity’s real-time 3D runtime to Android in the vehicle and extend platform support across Android/AOSP, AAOS, embedded Linux and QNX.
• Integrate Unity into native Android apps (Unity as a Library & Unity Render Service) and build the graphics/windowing layer for multi-screen HMIs.
• Profile and optimize runtime performance, memory, startup/load time on automotive SoCs across platforms.
• Partner directly with automotive OEMs as a technical point of contact, investigate issues, remove bottlenecks, ensure production readiness.
• Set engineering standards through design discussions, code reviews, and automated testing.

Skills

C/C++/C#

Android/AOSP

Embedded Linux

RTOS/QNX

Multithreading

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Unity Engine

OpenGL ES

Vulkan

IL2CPP

Android NDK

Job description

Unity is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Android, to own Unity’s runtime on Android in the car. You’ll work at the intersection of a high-performance 3D engine and production embedded systems, delivering into vehicles with AAOS, embedded Linux, and QNX platforms.

You’ll collaborate with automotive OEMs, optimize for constrained hardware, and help shape the next generation of Unity-powered digital cockpits and HMIs.