Senior Technical Artist, Tools & UI

The opportunity

The Unity Studio Productions team is a group of highly skilled Software Developers and Technical Artists with deep expertise in the Unity platform, whose main goal is to help our customers improve their projects and internal workflows and assist them in the resolution of very challenging technical problems.

Our customers include globally-known brands, and they need their game performance optimized, visual targets met, and timely advice on how best to use Unity. If you're technically skilled, customer-focused, and curious, this job will suit you.

Your day-to-day work will include interacting with customers, researching and delivering the answers to their questions, developing solutions and examples, and striving to ensure that their projects succeed.

In the longer term, you'll become an established technical expert within Unity. You can pursue opportunities including personal research, speaking at conferences, delivering training to customers and colleagues, and guiding Unity's direction by providing feedback and advice to our R&D teams.

This is a rewarding role where you will see a diverse range of projects made in the Unity game engine and grow as an expert consultant. We help hundreds of games each year use best practices in Unity. This role might involve occasional travel to customers’ offices and other Unity offices.

We're committed to maintaining a diverse team, and we welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and background.

What you'll be doing

• Understand Unity customer pain points and their development workflows to come up with solutions.
• Development work on Unity tools and packages
• Performance Optimization of Made with Unity titles for customers
• Work on innovative new products which may include the use of A.I. technologies.
• Custom development for customer projects

What we're looking for

• Experience with a programming or scripting language such as C# or C++
• Experience developing Editor tools in Unity
• Knowledgeable on how to profile, analyse, and improve performance across several types of content, such as animation, shaders, meshes, textures, audio, etc.
• Experience in shipping multiple games or other real-time interactive applications, including a proven understanding of software development lifecycles
• Proficient in written and spoken English, and able to guide customers by clearly communicating ideas and technical knowledge via written reports

You might also have

• Experience in UX/UI design and design tools such as Figma
• Experience with Web technologies and UI systems and frameworks
• Proficient in written and spoken Mandarin to work with Mandarin speaking clients

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

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.

Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

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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