XR Systems Engineer
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Full time
Hybrid role
Salary dependent on experience
Do you have experience developing OS and firmware for Android, ideally for VR?
We are looking for a person to join our Core Development Team working on headset development for our award winning ClassVR platform. You can find more information about our product here www.classvr.com.
This is an engineering role, sitting within our Core Development Team and working alongside our Senior Developers to advance our existing headsets and future designs.
About you
You may not be an expert in all the things this role will entail, but you will be a great engineer, with innovation at your core. You will understand low level systems architecture and have a passion for how things work. You will be familiar with embedded systems design and the code that makes them tick. You will also understand development processes and be able to contribute to process and development roadmaps. Living within core development but building capabilities that enable our partners and customers to create the next generation of educational tools for a global audience.
You are motivated by engineering excellence, building great technology, love working in teams and have a desire to push the limits of any platform you work with. You are all about innovation and engineering rigour.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
* Development of code and supporting tools for our existing and future headsets.
* Work with our manufacturing and software partners on OS and core apps, system development and platform.
* Ability to manage time and deliverables whilst maintaining quality.
* Engage and adopt best practice development processes, using well understood frameworks such as Agile, Scrum and Kanban.
* Translate ideas into plans and actionable deliverables.
* Prioritise and deliver against a backlog of improvements.
Knowledge, Skills, Experience and qualifications
* Languages, C++, Java, Kotlin, Java, Python.
* Knowledge of Android application development and / or linux system development.
* Experience and knowledge of code control tools such as Docker, Git.
* Experience in tools such as Jira, Trello, Confluence.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on finding practical and effective solutions.
Good to have
* Experience in developing VR / XR technologies.
* Experience of VR / XR frameworks and SDKs such as OpenXR, WebXR, Qualcomm Spaces, Cardboard etc.
* Android Studio and similar.
* Experience in embedded systems.
* Experience in VR content development, games, immersive entertainment, education or similar.
* Understanding of emerging technologies in the spatial computing space such as haptic development, hand tracking and visual FX.