Job Description

Overview

Position Title: Technical Game Developer

Length of Contract: 12 months

Is this role remote? No

# of years of experience: 8-10+ years of experience

Description

Client is looking for a Technical Game Developer to help invent the future of digital presence in the Metaverse. In our Sausalito location, you will partner with our Creative Director, technical artists, research scientists, and engineers to create immersive demos that show how our state-of-the-art technologies can enable the future of AR/VR avatars. Our research team develops the technologies that will enable Clients product groups to ship the avatars the world will see in 5 to 10+ years. Youll work in small, nimble teams to rapidly iterate on digital character-focused demos and prototypes. Youll be working as the integrator inside real-time engines like Unreal by bringing together the vision of the Creative/Art Director, 3D character assets created by technical artists, and innovative technologies designed by engineers. These demos are shared with the leadership and community of Meta Reality Labs to inspire and define a north-star for our future metaverse.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end experiences with satisfying and novel core mechanics and loops
• Partner with Technical Artists and Research Engineers to Integrate high-end character models using state-of-the-art technologies into AR/VR experiences.
• Work with the teams to evaluate and define the best 3D real-time approaches and optimization practices.
• Participate in ideation sessions with creative and technical peers to help plan and troubleshoot the design of our prototype demo experiences.

Required Experience

• Minimum 8+ years of Game development and/or AR/VR prototype experiences. You are an expert in game mechanics and UI systems, demonstrating high end skillsets with level blueprint and real-time graphic optimization.
• Experience with technical aspects of game design such as coding C# or C++
• 3D Math fundamentals as applied to game logic.
• First-hand experience with industry Game production processes and cross-discipline collaboration and communication.
• Comfortable taking direction, yet also working independently, multi-tasking and self-prioritizing to help various teams meet goals in this quick-moving, highly collaborative environment.
• Experience with Unreal Engine 5 and Unity is required.
• Experience with real-time analytics tools/languages/process and visual scripting is a plus.
• Knowledge of Houdini and/or Maya is a plus.
• Previous experience in the creation of Games or interactive VR & AR experiences

Preferred Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Visualization, or Computer Animation, including coding and scripting in various languages

Education

• Not specified

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries
• IT Services and IT Consulting

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