Job Description
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Title: XR Developer/Unity Developer
Location: Burbank, CA
Contract Duration: 12 months +
Pay rate: up to $86/HR W2
Summary: The Immersive Production Technology (IPT) Group, a part Studio Technology, is looking for a skilled and passionate Unity Developer to focus on the creation of cutting-edge XR prototypes to demonstrate the potential of immersive XR technology as a new form of storytelling. This person will help IPT to realize its strategic mission of creating and acquiring immersive tech to facilitate modern filmmaking while developing XR experiences for the future of storytelling.
Key Responsibilities (include, But Are Not Limited To)
- Collaborate with our team to design, develop, and implement rapid Unity based prototypes to demonstrate the potential of immersive XR technology.
- Collaborate closely with designers, creatives, producers, and other developers to bring creative visions to life.
- Participate in testing for Unity’s beta program for VisionOS, share relevant demos and knowledge for future applications.
- Optimize and update previous XR experiences for new hardware and software platforms.
- Write efficient and maintainable code in C#
- Optimize, debug, test, and improve existing code for performance quality and provide timely and effective solutions to technical challenges.
- Integrate film quality assets and resources into Unity including 3D models, animations, textures, and sound effects.
- Hands-on development of working, readable, testable, and maintainable source code
- Stay up to date with Unity features and industry trends, actively researching and implementing new techniques and best practices.
- Support the adoption of new technology that is along the IPT technology roadmap in particular AR/VR technology and advanced interactive graphics.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated expertise and experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Virtual and Augmented Reality: Virtual reality and augmented reality hardware and software, tools, technologies, and techniques. Experience capturing, creating, and driving digital humans and avatars a plus.
- Real-Time Graphics: Real-time computer graphics hardware and software, game engine technology (particularly Unity and iOS Native development), and interactive graphics techniques.
- Virtual Production: including using real-time tools for film production such as game engines, motion capture, volumetric capture, etc.
- Collaborative 3D Design Pipelines: scalable, multi-GPU real-time reference development platform for 3D simulation and design collaboration and standardizing data formats like USD.
- Cinematic Graphics: Familiarity and experience with technology used for visual effects and digital content creation, with a focus on the technology used in the creation of high-end cinematic content, including production techniques, deliverables, formats, and workflows.
- Excellent problem-solving abilities.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to work well in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
- Passion for staying updated on the latest industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Strong overall understanding of general-purpose computer systems including cloud, network, server, desktop, tablet, and mobile form factors.
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent professional experience
- Minimum 3 years experience in Unity development, particularly focused on immersive XR technologies (AR, VR & MR)
- Strong proficiency in Unity and C# programming
- Experience optimizing experiences for various platforms (Quest, iOS etc)
- Experience shipping apps with multimodal XR; eye tracking, gesture tracking, spatial audio, advanced inputs
- Knowledge of object-oriented programming and software design patterns.
- Familiarity with agile development philosophy and practices
- Strong 3D math skills with a deep knowledge of computer graphics (animation, modeling, lighting, shading, rigging, FX, etc.).
- Can move quickly and address multiple elements of an experience (modeling, texturing/graphics, sound design etc.).
- 3 years experience in iOS development.
- Graphics programming and shader writing knowledge.
- Experience in Media & Entertainment production technology, or experience with VFX and/or animation pipelines.
- Experience with other game engines or development frameworks (Swift, RealityKit, Unreal).
- Proficiency in additional programming languages
- Proficiency with computer graphics content creation tools (Maya, Houdini, Nuke, etc.).
- Distills large, complex problems into small, testable pieces that iterate towards a final implementation with clear checkpoints and risk assessments.
- Has an interdisciplinary mindset and isn’t afraid of wearing many hats
- Has an aesthetic sense and understands how visual needs translate into technical requirements.
- Contributes to the overall creative and development process, providing valuable input and suggestions.
- Enjoys the unknown and navigates ambiguity with a composed demeanor.
- Is a great communicator, written and verbal.
To be successful in this role, you must be curious, innovative, a quick learner, and have a strong understanding of the key technologies that will drive and advance the ideation, production, distribution and presentation of Disney content and experiences. As part of this, you will work seamlessly with key internal stakeholders and external innovation partners. You need to have solid communication abilities and work well in complex cross-functional teams. An ability to be flexible and work in a dynamic and extremely fast-paced environment to meet the needs of our business are critical to success. Experience developing many concurrent projects is a plus