Job Description

Title: Travel Capture Technician

Location: Pittsburgh, PA to start - travel required

Duration: Long term contract - at least 3 years

Program Overview:

This opportunity is to lead a research team who is supporting a long-term effort to make person-to-person communication in Virtual Reality indistinguishable from real life.

This team's core function is to collect user data, which in this case is scans of the persons face and body. We capture facial expressions, eye movement, voice, etc; to then build a virtual model of that person. From there, A.I. uses cameras embedded in the VR headset to predict their movements based off the data we collected. The result is a hyper realistic model of that person whose expressions (face, mouth, eyes, forehead wrinkles, etc.) change in real time even when they have a headset on.

Must Haves:

• Bachelors degree
• Customer service experience. Ability to get people out of their comfort zone and be someone’s friend for a day. This person should enjoy working with people on a daily basis.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal skills, and attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to remain calm in stressful situations
• Demonstrated ability to remain adaptable and flexible in stressful situations
• Demonstrated ability to proactively identify and solve problems

Plusses:

· Experience with virtual reality systems, cameras and optical systems, lighting systems, and audio systems

*Travel team: This person will be a part of a 8-person travel team that will be going to a different location in the U.S. every 3 months for the next 3 years. This is a unique opportunity with paid hotel and travel, per diem while traveling outside of PA, PTO, and paid holidays.

Day-to-Day

The Capture Technician will collect face and body data gathered from large-scale capture domes and VR headsets by:

● Staging and setting-up equipment for the study, which may include engaging with engineering, external equipment vendors, internal and external safety evaluators, and the research study team to ensure the equipment is set up properly.

● Conducting the study, including participant coaching and interaction, operating complex, experimental capture systems, and debriefing with team leadership as necessary

● Performing basic troubleshooting of capture systems (hardware and software) and escalate any bugs or issues using internal tools

● Providing research study support, including data collection, tracking of participants, and tracking of equipment and procedures.

● Contributing to and/or update existing documentation

● Serving as a participant for studies and being captured in various systems as needed

● Completing project work related to captures such as recording and updating capture scripts

● Attending all required trainings, meetings, and standups

● Providing feedback for process improvement areas