Senior Graphics Engineer - Visual features

Unity; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading game development platform in the UK is seeking a Graphics Engineer to drive innovation in rendering technologies. You will implement cutting-edge features in the Universal Render Pipeline and optimize performance across multiple platforms. Ideal candidates have a strong background in C++ graphics programming, understanding of rendering algorithms, and the ability to work within diverse teams. This role offers a unique opportunity to impact the developer experience of widely-used interactive applications.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of 3D math and rendering algorithms.
• Experience with modern graphics APIs like DirectX 12 and Vulkan.
• Working knowledge of shader languages and data-driven architecture.

Responsibilities

• Implement new rendering features in URP, enhancing performance across platforms.
• Optimize rendering systems while ensuring stability and performance.
• Help maintain core rendering systems by diagnosing and fixing bugs.

Skills

Graphics programming in C++

Understanding of rendering pipelines

Debugging experience in a multithreaded environment

Proficiency with performance analysis tools

Ability to work in a diverse team

Tools

Visual Studio

RenderDoc

NVIDIA Nsight

XCode

JetBrains Rider

Job description

The opportunity

Unity Graphics is on a mission to rapidly advance innovation across our entire graphics stack, delivering the perfect balance of performance, quality, and the widest possible device reach. We are looking for a Graphics Engineer with a passion for continuous learning and collaboration, with a drive to democratize high-performance graphics for creators at every scale. In this role, you'll help us push the Universal Render Pipeline's capabilities to the next level, implement key features of our next-generation GPU-driven rendering pipeline, and address developer pain points. With the Unity runtime being installed on over 3.5 billion devices worldwide, this is a unique opportunity to shape the developer experience of the most widely used game engine in the world.

What you'll be doing

• Implement new rendering features in URP, such as advanced lighting, post-processing, and enhanced material workflows that scale across all platforms.
• Help engineer our next-generation GPU-driven pipeline, helping to build systems that minimize CPU overhead.
• Optimize rendering systems across all 20+ supported platforms, identifying and fixing bottlenecks to ensure we remain the performance leader.
• Help maintain our core rendering systems by diagnosing and fixing bugs, ensuring stability and reliability for our developers.

What we're looking for

• Graphics programming in C++, with a grasp of 3D math, rendering algorithms, and shader languages.
• Understanding of rendering pipelines, GPU architecture, and performance optimization techniques.
• Debugging experience in a multithreaded environment, ideally multi-platform with tools such as Visual Studio, RenderDoc, XCode, JetBrains Rider.
• Proficiency with performance analysis tools such as PIX, Superluminal, NVIDIA Nsight, Apple Instruments, or Android GPU Inspector.
• Able to work in a diverse, distributed team and is motivated to help our entire developer community succeed.

You might also have

• Experience working on a commercial real-time rendering engine or similar large-scale interactive graphics application.
• Familiarity with Unity's rendering architecture or related systems.
• Working knowledge of modern graphics APIs (e.g., DirectX 12, Vulkan, Metal) and shader language models (SM5.x, 6.x, Slang).
• Knowledge of C#. Experience implementing shaders or various rendering techniques.
• Knowledge with data-driven architecture.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Company overview

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.

Statistics

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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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 let us know.

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.