VR UX Gameplay Engineer

About UNISON

UNISON is a small team of passionate people from companies like Meta, Sony, and Apple, as well as research labs like the IARAI. Based in the SF Bay Area and backed by some of the world’s best investors, we're working hard to create products we would proudly recommend to our friends and family.

We are building a unified reality headset that allows users to plunge into and resurface from virtual worlds with newfound value. We see living between virtual and physical worlds as a tool for creating, storytelling, and sharing—not hindering your total lived experience. You can learn more about our product, team, careers, and worldviews at unison.co.

We seek a Software Engineer specializing in VR prototype development to join our innovative team. This pivotal role involves translating cutting-edge UX prototypes into coded VR experiences, bridging the conceptual design and functional implementation gap. The ideal candidate will possess a robust foundation in software development and a flair for adopting user-centric design principles to craft immersive and intuitive VR environments. This position requires a proactive collaborator capable of working closely with UX designers to understand their visions and prototypes and meticulously transforming these concepts into living, breathing VR experiences.

Your Responsibilities

• Gameplay Programming: Leverage your expertise as a “gameplay” programmer to inject life into VR prototypes, creating interactive and engaging experiences that resonate with users. This involves coding for user interaction, physics, game logic, and other elements that make the VR environment immersive and interactively rich.

• Prototype Development: Lead the transformation of UX-designed prototypes into functional VR applications, ensuring technical feasibility while adhering to the envisioned user experience.

• Collaborative Design Integration: Actively collaborate with UX designers to understand their prototypes, offering technical insights to ensure the designs are practical and impactful in VR.

• Feedback and Iteration: Establish a feedback loop with the design team, using your gameplay programming perspective to refine and enhance VR experience's interactive aspects.

Your Qualifications

• Background as a “gameplay” programmer with a track record of crafting compelling VR experiences

• Proficiency in software development with a strong portfolio demonstrating experience in VR or related technologies

• Skilled in programming languages relevant to VR development, such as Python, C++, and C#, with the flexibility to engage with other coding environments as needed

• A deep understanding of UX principles and the ability to translate UX designs into functional VR experiences

• Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating technical concepts to non-technical team members and working collaboratively to solve design challenges

• An innovative problem-solver eager to explore new technologies and approaches to enhance the VR user experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Adept at incorporating user feedback into VR spatial OS development, with an eye toward intuitive UX design

• Demonstrated experience at the crossroads of design and software engineering, especially within a VR context

• Creative problem-solver, passionate about pushing the boundaries of VR technology to envision and realize future potential

• Experience with Blender, Houdini, Unity, Unreal Engine, and other game engines

Why UNISON?

UNISON offers competitive salaries and equity packages, giving all employees an ownership stake in what we're working hard to build. You will also receive flexible PTO, 401k with employer matching, excellent 100% employer-paid health benefits, and more.

We are growing quickly, so if you’re interested in joining us but don’t see a job that fits what you’re looking for or if your experience doesn’t quite meet the criteria, please feel free to reach out at [email protected]. We are happy to connect.

UNISON is committed to equity in our hiring practices. If you think you may require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send a request to: [email protected]. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical, and permitted by law.

At UNISON, we are committed to mitigating bias and providing an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all qualified applicants and teammates based solely on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, national, social or ethnic origin, religion, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), ancestry, age, physical and mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression, marital/familial status, citizenship status, military/veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.