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Unity/Wētā Digital's Rendering Department builds sophisticated production rendering technology for high-quality final frame rendering as well as consistent and interactive visualisations. We are searching for an agile and driven engineer to expand our rendering team to evolve our GPU-based inhouse realtime rendering engine, Gazebo. This engine is a crucial part in the creative process of our production pipeline for lighting, virtual production, scene layout and modelling.

An extensive understanding of current and future interactive rendering and optimisation techniques for modern GPU hardware architectures is required. In this position you will work in a team of highly skilled rendering researchers and engineers, and your work will directly impact how artists will transform their creativity to cinematic movie production in our studio.

International relocation is not available for this position.

• Researching and implementing the latest graphics technologies and techniques
• Helping design and evolve a highly performant and robust realtime rendering architecture that scales to complex production demands
• Maintaining a custom Graphics Rendering API for Vulkan and OpenGL
• Supporting existing software by triaging user issues and implementing new features
• Collaborating with Pipeline, Engineering, Rendering, and Research departments to develop and maintain interacting software

• Proficient in C++, including debugging and profiling skills (additionally, Linux experience is a preference)
• Can work independently but also collaborate with team members and external users across the facility
• In-depth of past and current real-time rendering techniques
• Experience with modern OpenGL and Vulkan and techniques such as GPU-Driven Rendering, Ray Tracing and Bindless rendering
• Familiarity with the foundations of physically based shading models

• Knowledge of current GPU and CPU profiling tools including Nsight Graphics, RenderDoc and Vtune; Path tracing/ Light Transport
• Familiarity with VFX production pipelines and common DCC apps (Maya, Motionbuilder, etc) and Python
• Hands-on experience with debugging tools such as gdb, vtune

Life at Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

In the fourth quarter of 2022, more than 70% of the top 1000 mobile games were made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1000 games in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. In 2022, Made with Unity Applications had more than 4 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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