At Light & Wonder, the Gaming team builds cutting-edge technology, products, and content for casinos and operators. The Unity Developer will be responsible for planning and implementing game functionality, building the game code, identifying bottlenecks, and ensuring the quality of the finished product, acting as a translator between art and engineering to achieve the player-facing vision for the game.
Requirements
- Extensive experience working with Unity software.
- Able to design and implement real-time VFX using Unity’s Animator, Timeline, Visual Effect Graph, Particle Systems, and Shader Graph.
- Strong ability with C-Sharp object-oriented programming language, debugging and Unity specific code.
- Experience with game assets (ex: shaders, meshes, animations, materials).
- Experience in profiling and optimizing game and render performance (GPU and CPU).
- Ability to identify errors and troubleshoot.
- Troubleshoot shader, lighting, and rendering issues in both 2D and 3D environments.
Responsibilities
- Plan, design, and implement high-quality game features in partnership with other studio members.
- Participate in the planning, architecting, and implementing of game functionality.
- Collaborate in establishing an effective pipeline for feature development.
- Transform design ideas into functional games.
- Identify and fix code errors and performance bottlenecks.
- Prototype and test game functionality and theme dynamics.
- Ensure the optimal performance, quality, and responsiveness of games.
Other
- This is a hybrid, minimum 3 day in office role in our Chicago based studio.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or relevant degree or 2+ years of work experience in related field.
- Background in casino game development.
- Game development with shipped Unity products.
- Solid understanding of 3D rigging, animation systems, and character pipelines.
