Lead XR Engineer for Real-Time AR/VR Experiences

GLO; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual base salary range: $150,000 - $

$185,000 depending on experience

Comprehensive health, dental, and vis​

Job summary

GLO in New York is seeking a Principal XR Game Engineer to own core real-time systems for immersive experiences built on Unity. You’ll shape architecture, optimize graphics, and drive networking across mobile, AR/VR, and headset runtimes.

You’ll work across constrained hardware, live venue environments, and multi-user synchronization, partnering with design, art, product, and operations to keep experiences stable and fun. Eligible to work in the U.S. is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in games, XR, real-time 3D, simulation, or engine development.
• Strong Unity and C# experience.
• Experience shipping or maintaining real-time applications on constrained hardware.
• Deep understanding of performance profiling and optimization.
• Strong understanding of graphics engineering, rendering performance, shaders, memory budgets, and frame timing.
• Experience with multiplayer or networked real-time systems.
• Ability to reason clearly about network topology, authority models, synchronization, latency, and transport behavior.
• Comfortable debugging on physical devices, not just in-editor.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to make practical technical decisions in a fast-moving environment.
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain real-time Unity systems for AR, VR, MR, and location-based gameplay.
• Own technical architecture for interactive experiences across mobile and XR hardware.
• Profile and optimize performance on target devices, including CPU, GPU, memory, thermal load, and frame pacing.
• Diagnose and resolve rendering bottlenecks related to shaders, draw calls, overdraw, batching, LODs, textures, lighting, and post-processing.
• Design and implement networking systems for multi-user immersive experiences, including authority, replication, synchronization, latency, and bandwidth management.
• Debug device, connectivity, build, and runtime issues across headset and mobile platforms.
• Improve Unity tooling, build profiles, asset workflows, and deployment reliability.
• Work closely with design, art, product, and operations to ensure experiences are technically stable and fun to use.
• Help define engineering standards as the company grows.

Skills

Unity

C#

Real-time 3D

XR/AR/VR

Networking

Performance profiling

Device debugging

Ownership mindset

Tools

Mirror/Photon

Job description

GLO in New York is seeking a Principal XR Game Engineer to own core real-time systems for immersive experiences built on Unity. You’ll shape architecture, optimize graphics, and drive networking across mobile, AR/VR, and headset runtimes.

You’ll work across constrained hardware, live venue environments, and multi-user synchronization, partnering with design, art, product, and operations to keep experiences stable and fun. Eligible to work in the U.S. is required.