🔍 Job Description:

XReality Group and Red Cartel is seeking a highly skilled Senior Unity Engineer to join our core development group in Sydney on a negotiable 12 month contract with high potential for full time after 12 months for the right candidate. This role is part of our software team, responsible for building the logic and behaviours that VR broader environments.

You will be involved in designing and implementing systems that influence presence, interaction, and realism. The work focuses on areas just outside the user’s direct control but essential to their overall experience. It is a technically demanding and collaborative role, requiring close coordination with internal stakeholders to ensure features are robust, reliable, and aligned with creative direction.

🛠 Key Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and maintain advanced Unity systems, focusing on background character behaviours and supporting frameworks

Build and refine XR applications where systemic character interaction plays a meaningful role

Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines to ensure alignment with project goals

Optimise performance and stability for runtime systems at scale

Investigate and resolve technical challenges within production constraints

Contribute to the ongoing improvement of development processes and tools

✅ Requirements:

Minimum 8 years of professional engineering experience

At least 5 years working with Unity in a production environment

A record of contributing to multiple released or activated projects

Strong proficiency in C# within Unity

Experience developing XR applications

Ability to commute to the Brookvale office

Effective communication and collaboration skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

🌟 Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with character logic, behaviour trees, or simulation systems

Familiarity with networking frameworks such as Mirror, Photon, UNet, or Netcode for GameObjects

Proficiency with Git and collaborative version control workflows

Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and Unity automation practices

🎯 Why This Role?

This role focuses on developing the invisible layers that bring cohesion and depth to interactive systems. If you value precision, systems thinking, and the craft of creating believable behaviour, we’d love to hear from you.

🧠 Who are we?

Red Cartel is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of xReality Group Limited (XRG). XRG acquired Red Cartel in August 2021 to enhance its in-house development capabilities.

At XRG, we’re pioneering the frontier of immersive XR experiences for elite military and law enforcement teams. Our flagship offering, Operator XR, is transforming tactical training by combining portability, realism, and security. Housed in a single 18 kg case, it allows agencies to train anywhere, anytime using a combination of their own equipment and our custom peripherals. Operator XR provides instructors with fully customisable scenarios and deep analytics that are accessed via our custom After Action Review (AAR) component.

📩 Want to work for us?

Send your résumé and a short note to [email protected] – we’d love to hear from you!