Senior VFX Engineer (Unity3D)

Location: Fully remote; role listed in Poznań, Poland, Europe

Company

hirify.global develops stylized games, including a major Unity3D game project.

What you will do

• Develop scalable runtime systems for high-frequency gameplay effects, including pooling, shared emitters, batching, prioritization, and effect budgets.
• Create HLSL shaders, node-based shader solutions, particle effects, mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, procedural effects, and GPU-driven techniques.
• Build artist-facing Unity tools such as custom inspectors, validators, asset processors, and batch workflows.
• Optimize VFX for mobile GPUs, memory usage, overdraw, shader complexity, and runtime performance.
• Collaborate with VFX Artists, Technical Artists, Gameplay Engineers, and Rendering Engineers.
• Prototype technical approaches, make architectural decisions, and take production-ready systems through to release.

Requirements

• Strong HLSL shader programming experience and fluency with Shader Graph, Amplify, or similar node-based tools.
• 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 with Shuriken or equivalent systems, including mesh particles, trails, flipbooks, and shader-driven effects.
• Strong C# gameplay or engine programming experience and experience designing scalable effect runtimes.
• Experience with mobile GPU optimization, Metal, Vulkan, GLES, shader variants, and PSO warmup.
• Fluent English required.

Nice to have

• Experience with ECS, DOTS, Entities, Jobs, Burst, ECS-based rendering, or instanced material properties.
• Experience with compute shaders, GPU-driven effects, vertex animation, SDFs, procedural noise, or procedural rendering.
• Experience with procedural or voxel geometry, dynamic meshes, hull generation, custom lighting, or networked gameplay effects.
• Experience with multiplayer or large-scale gameplay systems and performance-constrained platforms.
• Strong artistic eye and experience contributing to VFX look development.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work with flexible contract options depending on location.
• Meaningful ownership over VFX technology for a major Unity3D game project.
• Direct collaboration across VFX, technical art, rendering, and gameplay engineering disciplines.
• Annual Beffio team retreats.
• Potential for long-term collaboration as the project grows.