Senior Manager Software Engineering, XR Platform

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Job Description

The opportunity

At Unity, we are excited about the new creative avenues that AR and VR bring to our developers. With that, we are investing heavily in these futures, from integrating third party hardware to developing mechanisms to allow developers to easily take advantage of these new platforms. By joining the XR Foundations team, you will be working on one of the most popular game engines helping to integrate groundbreaking AR and VR technologies and devices. You will be directly involved in partners that are eager to see their platforms running experiences powered by Unity.

As an Engineering Manager on the XR Engineering team, you will help bring new AR and VR platforms and features to Unity. While leading and instilling a collaborative group environment. You will be provided opportunities to help enable the learning and continuation of growth in programming for your team. If you have a passion for the XR space and want to help achieve its full potential, Unity should be the next stop in your career!

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Leading the platform integration of various XR platforms such OpenXR, WMR, Hololens, Oculus, MagicLeap/Lumin etc
  • Managing task priorities, day-to-day execution & delivery of tasks by leading an engineering team with lean and agile methodologies.
  • Unblock obstacles, collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners and empower your team to do their best work
  • Build, coach and mentor a world-class engineering team
  • Construct and provide feedback on system designs that may impact diverse groups such as internal teams, partners, and Unity creators.
What We’re Looking For

  • Five+ years of software lead experience including having direct reports
  • Prior development experience with AR/VR runtimes such as OpenXR, Oculus, WinMR, Magic Leap, etc
  • Advanced C/C++ skills and C# skills (intermediate)
  • Ability to mentor/coach team members, lead by example and build trust and solid relationships
  • Cross platform development experience
You might also have
  • Experience steering the direction of strategic, tactical and operational roadmap of products
  • Experience with Unity
Life at Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

The company’s 1,800+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than five billion times per month in 2020. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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