Staff Game Engineer
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Staff Game Engineer
Fortis Games
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
Unity
About the role
- Profile and optimize Unity runtime performance across gameplay, rendering, and asset systems on mobile platforms
- Architect scalable, data-oriented systems for ECS, animation, physics, and UI frameworks
- Lead investigations into CPU, GPU, and memory bottlenecks, defining baselines and measurable performance targets
- Build and evolve profiling tools, telemetry systems, and diagnostic frameworks for mobile optimization
- Refactor complex gameplay code for clarity, modularity, and performance
- Mentor engineers in Unity performance patterns, Burst/Job System usage, and mobile optimization practices
- Collaborate with design, art, and backend teams to deliver new features that meet both creative and performance goals
- Contribute to the long-term Unity architecture and client scalability strategy across titles
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience building and optimizing Unity (C#) game clients at scale
- Expertise in mobile performance optimization, including CPU/GPU profiling, memory management, and asset streaming
- Advanced proficiency in data-oriented design (ECS, DOTS) and multithreaded programming
- Strong understanding of Unity rendering pipelines, Burst Compiler, and Job System
- Proven ability to debug complex, cross-system issues in live mobile environments
- Experience shipping or maintaining mobile or cross-platform Unity titles
- Track record of mentoring engineers and improving development efficiency
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence cross-discipline technical decisions.
Benefits
- There are many reasons to join us, but here are a few:
- We strongly believe we are changing how games studios operate and at the core of what we do is making great games that create a connected community
- We're not just about making Games Where You Belong. We're also about building communities where our people belong. That's why Fortis is a thriving environment that celebrates diversity, embraces inclusivity, and fosters growth.
- Build and grow with a seasoned team of accomplished talent who have left an impactful mark in their disciplines, both in and out of gaming.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
UnityC#mobile performance optimizationCPU profilingGPU profilingmemory managementdata-oriented designECSDOTSmultithreaded programming
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationinfluencing technical decisions
