Senior Core Engine Architect

Unity; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock options

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Unity is seeking engineers to advance the core engine tech that underpins visionOS support, streaming, and toolchains like Play to Device and Scene Recording. You will own critical subsystems, design scalable APIs, and optimize execution timing and resource contention in real-world environments, often working across multiple engine domains.

The role emphasizes deep engine work, performance, and reliability as Unity ships foundations for interconnected game ecosystems across diverse platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience building or extending game engine cores, middleware, or foundational systems.
• Design modular, testable systems; implement end-to-end.
• Strong C++ and C# skills with knowledge of CPU caches and memory layout.
• Experience across multiple engine domains (physics, animation, assets).

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve critical subsystems across the engine stack.
• Design and implement high-performance APIs for embedded, cross-process, and networked configurations.
• Develop schemes to manage execution timing and resource contention with minimal overhead.
• Orchestrate loading, change tracking, serializing, and synchronizing components and assets in constrained environments.

Skills

Core engine expertise

Architectural vision

High-performance coding

Engine breadth

Tools

C++

C#

Job description

Unity is seeking engineers to advance the core engine tech that underpins visionOS support, streaming, and toolchains like Play to Device and Scene Recording. You will own critical subsystems, design scalable APIs, and optimize execution timing and resource contention in real-world environments, often working across multiple engine domains.

The role emphasizes deep engine work, performance, and reliability as Unity ships foundations for interconnected game ecosystems across diverse platforms.