Job Description

Our mission is to protect life.

We’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing police agencies with state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect us. In the next few years, we're going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We’ll put video at the heart of police records so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.

It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day.

Our mission is to protect life

We’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's inception building the TASER to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing police agencies with the state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect us. In the next few years, we're going to improve the quality, and frequency of police training. We work closely with law enforcement and the community in our training content. We are innovating police training, and we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.

It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day.

Your Impact

We Seek To Accomplish This While Abiding To The Following Guiding Principles

We are working with cutting edge technology and need your help to make it all come together. You will join an interdisciplinary team tackling the biggest challenges in public safety training head-on, including immersive VR based empathy, coping and de-escalation training to help officers engage with the communities they serve, with greater awareness and safety.

• Build AR and VR Solutions for Social Good: With our mission to Protect Life, we develop AR/VR solutions that benefit both law enforcement and the community, while addressing key issues in society.
• Empower Agencies with Data: Deliver ongoing data and analysis that provide agencies with key insights that enable them to make decisions that result in building better, more efficient, and positive programs.
• Develop an Active and Diverse Virtual Platform: Leverage the latest in AR & VR technologies to create a robust portfolio of solutions and the highest-quality content, that enable users to be more effective in their roles and manage the challenges of 21st century public safety.
  

As one of the founding members for Axon’s VR/AR engineering team, you will be responsible for bringing our VR content to life with planning and prototyping and also through to production development and launch. We are seeking multiple Unity Developers to design, build and iterate on the platform and applications (both VR and Mobile) that make up our VR and AR-based training. You will partner with design, art, user research, product and multiple engineering teams to create a connected, scalable, performant and highest quality VR training experience that revolutionizes police training.

Our AR/VR Team

We believe that happy teams make the best products, so we foster a friendly, open, introspective team culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind, collaborate together, and have fun. (The team has weekly VR happy hours in headset.)

We believe we can only succeed if we deeply understand our customers and get to know them. We spend a lot of time with law enforcement officers to learn about their needs, watch their experience and see the real impact of our work. We also work closely with our Axon Community Impact team, along with other community subject experts to create our content and curriculum to reflect the needs of both law enforcement + community.

What about the Day-to-day?

On Any Given Day You May Find Yourself

You will be a core member of the VR development team, prototyping new experiences and technologies and developing our core shipping products. You will be a strategic partner to UX, Art, Product Management and Design when identifying product features.

• Planning, design, and implementation of a next generation game feature that is a part of your current sprint.
• Communicating with the team in standup about a problem that you are prioritizing.
• Creating or modifying the mobile or in-VR UI while working closely with Design.
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and impactful feedback
• Migrating the code base to a new version of Vive Wave Runtime or a new version of Unity.
• Writing a script to support the Sound Designer’s vision so they can better implement into the scene.
• Contributing to or leading the strategy of a new development pipeline.
• Participate in design, user research, and code reviews with colleagues.
• Helping an engineering team member troubleshoot an issue with game physics or Hand Tracking.
• Exploring the tech and performing feasibility analysis on features with the Design and PM team before they finalize a long term roadmap.
• Balancing the time to market with the quality of the effort correctly. Making the right design and execution decisions to deliver proof of concepts and MVPs without risking the wrong things. (Arch decisions, testing decisions, deployment decisions, security decisions, roadmap decisions.)
• Making smart tech debt decisions, fast.
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering
• Deep experience building and shipping customer facing applications in Unity
• Exceptional 3D math and C# skills
• Experience collaborating with the 3D art team and implementing 3D art and game assets like animations, meshes, shaders, and materials.
• Experience profiling and building within XR technical, optimization, render performance and implementation constraints.
• Experience creating titles on XR platforms like Hololens, Oculus, HTC Vive, or PlayStation VR.
• Works effectively with cross-functional teams including teams of multiple engineers and QA.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Multiplayer Networking, AI, NLP, or IK/Avatar development.
• Experience working with the Vive Wave runtime
• Mobile development on Android
• You are passionate about quality design, code, tools and architectures
• You want use technology to make a positive impact
  
  

Compensation And Benefits

• Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Robust parental leave policy
• An award-winning office/working environment
• Ride along with real police officers in real life situations, see them use technology, get inspired
• Get paid to play
• And more...
  

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

NOTE: The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may require legally eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sex (including gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth, or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), breastfeeding (or medical conditions relating to breast feeding), age, marital status, national origin or ancestry, genetic information, disability (including medical condition), veteran status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state, or federal law.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities and/or religious reasons to perform the essential functions of this position. Additionally, if you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability or religious reason for any part of the employment process, please send an email to recruitingops@axon.com. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.