The opportunity
Unity is investing in advanced 2D capabilities to better serve creators globally, focusing on high-performance world building, asset management, graphics, and animation workflows for demanding 2D scenarios. We're seeking a senior engineer to lead the design and delivery of high-quality 2D features, strengthen integrations with external tools, and elevate performance across platforms and devices. In this role, you'll own core systems that directly impact adoption, performance, and workflow quality, collaborating closely with internal teams and market-facing partners.
What you'll be doing
- Design and develop 2D workflows in Unity editor for world building, asset management, animation, or graphics
- Ensure features are performant.
- Contribute to define engineering standards, including benchmarks, testing, documentation, and reliability practices to maintain quality and performance bars for 2D features.
What we're looking for
- Japanese language skills: Ability to collaborate with Japanese partners and creators, gather feedback, and represent the team effectively.
- Experience working in games. Preferably in tech/tools/engines.
- Experience developing authoring workflows and runtime features for games. Preferably in tech/tools/engine development.
You might also have
- GPU programming and shaders: experience with HLSL/GLSL/Metal; performance minded; familiarity with compute shaders for parallelizable workloads.
- Experience in building authoring workflows in Unity Editor or other development environments
- Served as technical lead in a development team.
- Community outreach: comfortable engaging users, for example in forums, to understand needs and share best practices.
Additional information
- International relocation support is not available for this position
Life at Unity
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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