Staff Game Engine Engineer

Onebrief

Staff Game Engine Engineer responsible for technical leadership in developing AtomEngine. Collaborating across teams to drive architecture and simulation capabilities for Onebrief's platform.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $265,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

UnityUnreal Engine

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive the technical vision and architecture of AtomEngine, ensuring the platform can support current and future simulation, AI, and modeling requirements.
Lead the design and evolution of core engine systems, frameworks, and developer tooling, establishing patterns that enable multiple teams to build effectively on the platform.
Own architectural decisions spanning engine runtime, editor tooling, performance infrastructure, and platform scalability.
Identify and drive high-leverage investments that improve performance, reliability, maintainability, and developer productivity across the engine ecosystem.
Lead complex technical initiatives that span multiple teams, aligning stakeholders and driving execution from concept through delivery.
Partner with simulation, AI, platform, and product engineering teams to ensure engine capabilities effectively support higher-level systems and organizational priorities.
Establish and champion engineering standards, architectural principles, and development best practices across the engine codebase.
Serve as a technical mentor and force multiplier for other engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
Proactively identify technical risks, architectural bottlenecks, and scaling challenges, developing pragmatic strategies to address them before they become constraints.
Balance short-term delivery objectives with long-term platform strategy, making thoughtful tradeoffs that maximize both engineering velocity and system health.

Requirements

What you’ll need

9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience developing game engines, simulation platforms, or other performance-critical systems.
Demonstrated experience owning the architecture and technical direction of large-scale engine, platform, or infrastructure systems.
Deep understanding of game engine architecture, including rendering, ECS frameworks, data-oriented design, tooling, asset pipelines, or runtime systems.
Proven track record leading complex technical initiatives that require alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
Strong experience optimizing performance, scalability, reliability, and developer workflows in large codebases.
Experience establishing engineering standards, conducting architecture reviews, and influencing technical decision-making beyond your immediate team.
Strong systems-thinking skills with the ability to evaluate long-term platform tradeoffs and investment opportunities.
Familiarity with modern game engines such as Godot, Unity, Unreal Engine, or equivalent technologies.
Experience shipping and supporting complex live-service products.
Due to federal contract requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required for this position.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity: Share in the company's success.
Flexible Work Environment: Remote-first organization* with flexible work hours and unlimited PTO.***(*note that some roles are in-person, on-site with customers)*
Comprehensive Health Coverage: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match to secure your future.
Parental Leave: 8 weeks at 100% regardless of state.
Company Retreats: Annual company summit trips.
Home Office Budget: $1,000 per year for home office improvements.

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringgame engine architecturerenderingECS frameworksdata-oriented designtoolingasset pipelinesruntime systemsperformance optimizationscalability

Soft Skills

leadershipstakeholder alignmenttechnical mentorshipsystems thinkingrisk identificationstrategic planningknowledge sharingdecision-makingcollaborationproblem-solving