Graphics & Tools Engineer (Unity)

Consumer Mobile Entertainment Company • San Francisco

Location

San Francisco, California (on-site, 5 days a week)

Compensation

$180k–$250k + equity · on-site 5 days in San Francisco

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing San Francisco consumer entertainment company building top-ranked mobile apps that blend gaming, collecting and real-money play. They are around 60 people, have raised $65M, and have been shipping since 2020. This is a product company where performance is felt directly by the player — frame rate, load time and battery are product features, not engineering details.

The role

This is a hands-on Unity role sitting at the intersection of graphics and tooling. You would own runtime rendering performance on mobile — profiling on real devices, finding the GPU, CPU and memory bottlenecks, and fixing them — and you would build the editor tooling that lets the rest of the game team move faster. Both halves matter: the client is explicit that a pure tools engineer without rendering depth is not the person they want, and that optimisation experience confined to PC or console does not transfer. The role is on-site in San Francisco five days a week, which the client has flagged as a hard requirement.

What you'll do

Own runtime rendering performance for shipped mobile titles — frame rate, memory and battery on real devices
Profile on device with Unity Profiler and Xcode Instruments, and chase down GPU, CPU and memory bottlenecks
Work deep in the Unity rendering pipeline and write production C#
Build internal tools and editor extensions that make the wider game team faster
Optimise shaders for mobile GPUs across a wide range of devices, not just current flagships
Sit with the team in person and iterate quickly — this is a small, fast-moving engineering group

What we're looking for

These are hard requirements. Check each one that applies to you.

I have 4 to 10 years of engineering experience with deep Unity expertise, across the rendering pipeline and production C#
I have shipped mobile games to release with Unity rendering optimisation, and owned their runtime performance
I have profiled on device, finding GPU, CPU and memory bottlenecks with tools such as Unity Profiler and Xcode Instruments
My optimisation experience is on mobile, not only on PC or console
I have built internal tools or editor extensions for game teams, with real graphics depth behind them
I can work on-site in San Francisco five days a week
I am already authorised to work in the United States and do not need sponsorship

Please note: every item above is a hard requirement for this role. Applications that don't meet all of them will be rejected. We recommend applying only if you check every box.

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Nice to have

Shader optimisation for mobile GPUs
Cocos engine experience, or work on an engine migration
Experience with real-money or skill-based gaming products
You have profiled and shipped across a wide spread of Android devices, not only flagships

Tech stack

Unity and C# throughout, with the rendering pipeline, shaders and mobile GPU profiling at the centre of the work. Tooling lives in the Unity editor; profiling runs on device through Unity Profiler and Xcode Instruments.

Compensation & logistics

$180k–$250k base + competitive equity
On-site in San Francisco five days a week — the client has flagged this as a hard requirement
No visa sponsorship offered — you must already be authorised to work in the United States
4 to 10 years of experience
1 hire planned
Full-time

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