Job Description

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer - C++/Python

LOCATION: Redmond, WA (onsite)

DURATION: 12 month-contract

PAY RANGE:$60-$75/hour

Company

Our client is a Fortune 500 multi-national technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Job Description

At Reality Labs Research, our goal is to explore, innovate and design Client interfaces and hardware subsystems for the next generation of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. We are looking for a skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our team. We are specifically looking for a candidate with experience in C++ and who can work with a team of researchers who are building prototype research devices. More broadly, the chosen candidate will work with a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers and will have access to cutting edge technology, resources, and testing facilities. The ideal candidate will be someone who likes to learn constantly, dive into new areas with unfamiliar technologies, and embrace the ambiguity of AR/VR problem solving. They will also be someone who likes to collaborate in a team environment across multiple scientific and engineering disciplines, making the architectural tradeoffs required to rapidly deliver software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work side by side with research scientists to enable a huge array of user studies that evaluate the perceptual effects of various AR/VR systems and features
• Analyze, evaluate, design, develop, integrate, debug and test real-time AR and VR software for advanced prototypes and user experiences
• Build software, tools, infrastructure, documentation and other systems that enable research scientists to be more effective and efficient
• Educate researchers and other team members on software engineering best practices, tips and techniques
• Write clean readable code, debug complex problems that span systems, prioritize ruthlessly and get things done with a high level of efficiency
  

Required Qualifications

• BS degree in the field of computer science or related field.
• 3+ years experience with C++, including C++11 (and up) features and principles.
• Experience shipping one or more products using standard software development toolsets such as source control and continuous integration systems
  

Desired Qualifications

Experience integrating third-party hardware and custom SDKs into existing engines

Top 3 Must-have HARD Skills

• C++ coding
• C++ debugging
• Communication: We support a lot of researchers, some with minimal programming experience. Got to be good at chatting to them!
  

Good To Have Skills

• Python (not required, but extremely popular with research)
• Performance analysis
  

Years Of Experience Required

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