Senior VFX Engineer | Unity3D | Remote | Stylized Games

Senior VFX Engineer | Unity3D | Remote

Position Overview

Beffio is looking for an experienced Senior VFX Engineer to join a major game project developed in Unity3D.

This role sits between VFX, Technical Art, Rendering, and Engineering, focusing on the technology and scalable runtime systems behind real-time effects.

We are looking for someone who can take a question like "can we make it look like this?" and turn the visual idea into a solution that is performant, reusable, artist-friendly, and scalable across a large game.

You will work closely with VFX Artists and Engineers on shaders, particles, GPU-driven effects, runtime architecture, tooling, mobile optimization, and gameplay integration.

This is a senior individual contributor role with significant technical ownership, where you will be expected to prototype solutions, make architectural decisions, and take systems through to production.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop scalable runtime systems for high-frequency gameplay effects.
• Build solutions for pooling, shared emitters, batching, prioritization, and effect budgets.
• Develop shaders using HLSL, Shader Graph, Amplify, or similar tools.
• Work with particle systems, mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, procedural effects, and GPU-driven techniques.
• Build artist-facing Unity tools, validators, custom inspectors, asset processors, and batch workflows.
• Optimize effects for mobile GPUs, memory, overdraw, shader complexity, and runtime performance.
• Collaborate with VFX Artists, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers.
• Prototype new technical approaches and take successful solutions through to production.
• Establish reusable templates, documentation, and technical standards for the VFX team.

Requirements

• Strong HLSL shader programming experience.
• Fluency with node-based tools such as Shader Graph, Amplify, or similar.
• Strong understanding of real-time rendering including blending, transparency, sorting, depth, instancing, and scriptable or custom render pipelines.
• Experience shipping particle-based effects in Unity using Shuriken or equivalent systems.
• Experience with mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, and shader-driven effects.
• Experience designing scalable effect runtimes for high-frequency effects, including pooling, batching, prioritization, or budget management.
• Strong C# gameplay or engine programming experience.
• Experience with ECS/DOTS, Jobs, Burst, or equivalent performance-focused architecture is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of mobile GPU optimization including overdraw, half precision, texture budgets, memory, and shader variants.
• Unity editor tooling experience including custom inspectors, drawers, asset processors, or batch tools.
• Understanding of Metal, Vulkan, and GLES, including platform-specific graphics limitations and shader or PSO warmup.
• Strong communication skills across both artistic and engineering disciplines.
• Fluent English.

Nice to Have

• Strong Unity DOTS/Entities experience.
• Experience with ECS-based rendering or instanced material properties.
• Compute shaders and GPU-driven effects.
• Vertex animation techniques.
• SDFs, procedural noise, and procedural rendering.
• Experience with procedural or voxel geometry, dynamic meshes, hull generation, or custom lighting systems.
• Networked gameplay effects including predicted versus confirmed events.
• Experience with multiplayer or large-scale gameplay systems.
• Strong artistic eye and ability to participate in VFX look development.
• Experience building effects for mobile or other performance-constrained platforms.

Ownership

We are looking for someone who can:

• Act as a bridge between artists and engineers.
• Independently turn creative requests into workflows and technology that scale.
• Prototype solutions quickly, validate them technically, and take them through to production.
• Make informed technical decisions balancing visual ambition with runtime performance.
• Review and improve systems created by others.
• Leave behind clean systems, templates, documentation, and standards that make the whole team more effective.

What We Offer

• Meaningful ownership over the technology powering VFX on a major Unity3D game project.
• Direct collaboration with experienced VFX Artists, Technical Artists, Rendering Engineers, and Gameplay Engineers.
• The opportunity to solve challenging rendering and performance problems.
• A role where engineering directly enables creative ambition.
• A highly collaborative international team.
• Fully remote work.
• Flexible contract options depending on location.
• Competitive compensation based on experience and contract structure.
• Annual Beffio team retreats.
• The possibility of long-term collaboration as the project grows.