Senior media software engineer

Remote, USA

Senior Media Software Engineer

Location

Remote, USA

Department

Engineering

Requisition ID

JOBREQ-2514939

Role description

The opportunity

Unity enables creators to ship to any device, and media (audio and video) is core to that experience. The Media team is renewing our stack for extensibility and cross-platform parity while sustaining the reliability customers expect.

What you'll be doing

• 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.

What we're looking for

• 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.

You might also have

• 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.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position

• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page ( .

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity ( .

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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Gross pay salary

$125,300-$203,600 USD