Job Description

AltspaceVR is the leading platform for live mixed reality experiences, offering cross-device live immersive virtual experiences using Microsoft’s Mixed Reality technologies (HoloLens, Holocapture, Azure Kinect) to emulate presence and connection, while building and fostering community. Our mission, to enable creators to easily produce, host and eventually monetize events successfully. Our goal, to enable the next level of social interaction and engagement between artists and audiences to keep people wanting to come back for more. 

  

Bringing people together from all over the world, the AltspaceVR platform has been the venue for countless live events, including virtual concerts, festivals, comedy shows, tech talks, LGBTQ meetups, meditation groups, dance parties, conferences and more. All our events are hosted by our community of creators, as well as celebrities and brands, including Burning Man, Diplo, Reggie Watts, NBC, Pitbull, Accenture, Rapsody, Baobab Studios, Mix Master Mike, and Bill Nye. Sitting at the intersection of experience, content and community, the AltspaceVR team is forging the future of virtual events. 

You are drawn to working on the latest and most innovative products in the world. You seek projects that will transform how people interact with technology. You have a drive to grow your skillset by finding unique challenges that have yet to be solved. This is an opportunity to be an innovator! 

Responsibilities

• Develop an audio strategy and execution plan to provide the best virtual event sound experience for concerts and live music in VR, to include offering stereo and spatial audio
• Determine the features and functionality necessary to improve audio fidelity of our networked/streaming communications solutions
• Work with the engineering team to develop a plan to integrate real-life acoustics into the AltspaceVR
• Work with the engineering team on additional audio features cone attenuation for voice to provide directionality, as well as crowd reactions
• Continue to improve and evolve AltspaceVR’s sound capabilities
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience in Audio programming
• 2+ years’ experience with Unity 3D and C#
• 2+ years’ experience working with VOIP solutions
• 5+ years’ experience in digital audio and voice data management
  

Let Us Know If You Have Experience With

There are plenty of other skills that aren’t required, but you’ll find useful in this role.

• Understanding the technical audio constraints regarding audio implementation of XR & PC to understand dependencies
• Strong cross-discipline collaboration skills
• Great communication, written and verbal
• Experience in AR or VR
• Experience with other game engines such as Unreal
  

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:  Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.  

  

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