Senior VFX Engineer Remote: Unity Runtime & Shaders

Jobgether SRL; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Annual team retreats

Competitive compensation

Flexible contracts

International team

Job summary

Lever, Inc. seeks a Senior VFX Engineer based in Ireland for a major Unity3D game project. You will own runtime VFX systems, shader development, and tooling, collaborating with artists and engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality real-time effects.

The role covers shader programming, particle systems, GPU-driven effects, and performance optimization across mobile and desktop platforms. You will prototype approaches, establish standards, and help translate creative concepts into

Qualifications

• Strong experience with HLSL shader programming and real-time VFX development.
• Fluency with node-based shader tools such as Unity Shader Graph, Amplify, or similar.
• Strong knowledge of real-time rendering concepts including blending, transparency, sorting, depth, instancing, and render pipelines.
• Proven experience shipping particle-based effects in Unity, including Shuriken or equivalents.
• Hands-on with mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, shader-driven effects, and procedural VFX.
• Experience designing scalable runtime systems for high-frequency effects (pooling, batching, budgets).
• Strong C# skills in gameplay/engine contexts; ECS/DOTS/Jobs/Burst preferred.
• Mobile GPU optimization knowledge (overdraw, half precision, memory budgets, shader variants).
• Editor tooling: custom inspectors, property drawers, asset processors, batch tools.
• Understanding of Metal, Vulkan, GLES and platform shader/PSO warmup considerations.
• Strong communication and collaboration across art and engineering.
• Fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable runtime systems for high-frequency gameplay effects (pooling, shared emitters, batching, budgets).
• Design and implement shaders using HLSL, Shader Graph, Amplify, or comparable tech.
• Build and optimize particle-based effects using mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, procedural techniques, GPU-driven approaches.
• Create artist-facing Unity tools, including custom inspectors, validators, asset processors, batch workflows.
• Optimize VFX for mobile and other constrained platforms (GPU performance, memory, overdraw, shader complexity).
• Collaborate with VFX Artists, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers to translate requirements into solutions.
• Prototype new rendering and VFX approaches, validate feasibility, bring to production.
• Establish reusable templates, workflows, documentation, and standards for the VFX team.
• Bridge artistic and engineering disciplines, balancing visual quality, scalability, and performance.
• Review and improve systems with maintainable, reusable technology.

Skills

HLSL shader programming

Shader Graph

Real-time VFX

Shuriken/Unity particle systems

Mesh particles

Unity Editor tooling

ECS/DOTS

C# programming

Mobile GPU optimization

Shader/PSO optimization

Metal/Vulkan/GLES knowledge

Communication & collaboration

English fluency

Tools

Unity Shader Graph

Amplify

Compute shaders

Job description

Lever, Inc. seeks a Senior VFX Engineer based in Ireland for a major Unity3D game project. You will own runtime VFX systems, shader development, and tooling, collaborating with artists and engineers to deliver scalable, high-quality real-time effects.

The role covers shader programming, particle systems, GPU-driven effects, and performance optimization across mobile and desktop platforms. You will prototype approaches, establish standards, and help translate creative concepts into