Unity

Senior Media Software Engineer

Unity

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $125,300 - $203,600 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

FFmpegUnity

About the role

  • Own and maintain a complex media tech stack across Unity-supported platforms.
  • Design and build hardware abstraction layers and cross-platform media APIs.
  • Refactor and modernize existing code; integrate and evaluate third-party frameworks.
  • Collaborate with Unity customers and internal authoring/runtime teams to turn needs into platform capabilities.

Requirements

  • Drive delivery of cross-platform media systems; own architecture decisions and customer impact.
  • Expert in C++ (memory, threading, real-time, perf profiling).
  • Deep media domain skills (eg. containers/codecs, streaming, sync) and major platform media SDKs (mobile, desktop, consoles).
  • Design extensible, testable, maintainable systems; reduce tech debt.
  • Produce strategy docs/technical design docs; set/enforce non-functional requirements; align partner teams to ship.
  • C# interoperability
  • Shipped media pipelines in Unity or comparable real-time engines at scale, with measurable improvements to latency, stability, and parity.
  • Led adoption or integration of open-source media frameworks (GStreamer, FFmpeg).
  • Expertise in GPU-accelerated media.
  • Advanced audio experience: spatial audio, DSP chains, low-latency IO, resampling, and A/V sync across diverse platforms.
  • Experience representing your organization with platform vendors or industry groups; negotiating SDK constraints and co-designing solutions.
Benefits
  • Relocation support is not available for this position
  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
C++C#GPU-accelerated mediaaudio experienceDSP chainslow-latency IOA/V syncmedia pipelinesthird-party frameworksmedia APIs
Soft skills
collaborationarchitecture decisionscustomer impacttechnical documentationstrategy developmentnegotiationteam alignmentproblem-solvingleadershipcommunication

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