• Develop scalable runtime systems for high-frequency gameplay effects, including pooling, shared emitters, batching, prioritization, and effect budgets.

• Design and implement shaders using HLSL, Shader Graph, Amplify, or comparable technologies.

• Build and optimize particle-based effects using mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, procedural techniques, and GPU-driven approaches.

• Create artist-facing Unity tools, including custom inspectors, validators, asset processors, batch workflows, and reusable production utilities.

• Optimize VFX for mobile and other performance-constrained platforms, with a focus on GPU performance, memory usage, overdraw, shader complexity, and runtime efficiency.

• Collaborate closely with VFX Artists, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers to translate creative requirements into robust technical solutions.

• Prototype new rendering and VFX approaches, validate their technical feasibility, and bring successful solutions through to production.

• Establish reusable templates, workflows, documentation, and technical standards that improve the efficiency and consistency of the wider VFX team.

• Act as a bridge between artistic and engineering disciplines, making informed technical decisions that balance visual quality, scalability, and performance.

• Review and improve existing systems while leaving behind clean, maintainable technology that benefits the broader team.

Requirements:

• Strong professional experience with HLSL shader programming and real-time VFX development.

• Fluency with node-based shader tools such as Unity Shader Graph, Amplify, or similar technologies.

• Strong knowledge of real-time rendering concepts, including blending, transparency, sorting, depth, instancing, and Scriptable or custom render pipelines.

• Proven experience shipping particle-based effects in Unity, including Shuriken or equivalent systems.

• Hands-on experience with mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, shader-driven effects, and procedural VFX techniques.

• Experience designing scalable runtime systems for high-frequency effects, including pooling, batching, prioritization, and performance budgeting.

• Strong C# programming skills, ideally within gameplay, engine, or performance-critical systems.

• Experience with ECS/DOTS, Jobs, Burst, or equivalent performance-oriented architectures is strongly preferred.

• Strong understanding of mobile GPU optimization, including overdraw, half precision, texture and memory budgets, shader variants, and runtime constraints.

• Experience creating Unity Editor tooling such as custom inspectors, property drawers, asset processors, and batch tools.

• Understanding of Metal, Vulkan, and GLES, including platform-specific graphics limitations and shader or PSO warmup considerations.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across artistic and engineering disciplines.

• Fluent English.

Nice to have:

• Strong experience with Unity DOTS/Entities, ECS-based rendering, or instanced material properties.

• Experience with compute shaders and GPU-driven effects.

• Knowledge of vertex animation techniques, SDFs, procedural noise, and procedural rendering.

• Experience with procedural or voxel geometry, dynamic meshes, hull generation, or custom lighting systems.

• Experience developing networked gameplay effects, including predicted versus confirmed events.

• Background working on multiplayer or large-scale gameplay systems.

• A strong artistic eye and an ability to contribute to VFX look development.

• Experience building effects for mobile or other highly performance-constrained platforms.

• Experience delivering stylized game projects, particularly for mobile platforms.

Benefits:

• Meaningful technical ownership over the VFX technology powering a major Unity3D game project.

• Direct collaboration with experienced VFX Artists, Technical Artists, Rendering Engineers, and Gameplay Engineers.

• The opportunity to solve complex rendering, performance, and scalability challenges.

• A role where engineering directly enables creative ambition and visual quality.

• A highly collaborative international working environment.

• Fully remote work.

• Flexible contract options depending on location and circumstances.

• Competitive compensation based on experience and contract structure.

• Annual team retreats.

• Potential for long-term collaboration as the project and team continue to grow.