New York, NY, USA
Lead, Software Engineering, XR Input
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Role Description
The opportunity
As an agile servant leader for the XR Input Engineering team, you will be joining the XR leadership team, having a direct impact on developers and end users. Your mission will include bringing improved XR input features and solving customers' most pressing XR input issues. You will also have the opportunity to be part of a team working on an industry leading and rapidly growing product. If making all things XR related reach their full potential drives you, Unity should be the next stop in your career!
At Unity, we are passionate about the new creative avenues that AR and VR bring to our developers. We are investing heavily in these futures, from integrating third party hardware to developing mechanisms to allow developers to easily take advantage of these new platforms.
Joining the XR Engineering team means helping build one of the most popular game engines, integrating foundational AR/VR technologies and devices. This role directly engages you with partners that are eager to see their platforms running experiences powered by Unity.
What you'll be doing
- Collaborate closely with different departments to drive the vision and accelerate the improvement of new input capabilities into the Unity engine focused on hands, eyes and voice
- Support business development and quarterly planning activities by reviewing contracts or features and providing estimates, risks and mitigation plans.
- Work to implement processes, systems and culture for the team which result in high team morale and increased customer happiness
- Ensure cross team collaboration with other XR engineering teams, other functions and groups across Unity
What we're looking for
- Software lead experience including having direct reports
- Prior development experience with AR/VR runtimes such as OpenXR, Oculus, SteamVR, WinMR, Magic Leap, etc
- Advanced C/C++ with (optional) intermediate C# skills
- Experience managing projects, agile teams and mentoring team members
- Experience with Unity
You might also have
- Experience steering the direction of strategic, tactical and operational roadmap of products
- Familiarity with Unity Input System
- Deep understanding of low-level input programming
Additional information
- Relocation support is not available for this position.
- International relocation support is not available for this position.
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.
Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. 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 fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
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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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