Product Design Prototyper Intern, Input Explorations

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Job Description

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.

We’re looking for a Product Design Prototyper Intern who is passionate about advancing the boundaries of input in AR/VR. The ideal candidate has game, UI, or interaction development experience in either Unity or Unreal and flourishes working in an ambiguous technology space. As a Product Design Prototyper Intern, you will have the opportunity to explore the meaning and implementation of inputs and interaction in spatial computing. You will become part of a team exploring new input devices and technologies by designing and prototyping interactions. We want people who work well in teams; can brainstorm big ideas; have great design sense; work in ambiguous technology areas; can envision how to test a hypothesis and rapidly build a prototype. You will be expected to use your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills.

Responsibilities
  • Design, research, prototype, and implement interaction ideas for input technologies and devices
  • Work with a full-stack software and hardware team to realize interactions into experiences
  • Develop and iterate rapid models of proposed design solutions for the purposes of communication and evaluation
  • Design flows and visuals
  • Solve problems with your cross-functional leads
  • Think beyond incremental features and help design paradigm shifts for inputs in spatial computing
Minimum Qualification
  • Experience with real-time 3D development such as Unity/C# or Unreal
  • Experience partnering in cross-functional environments
  • Experience working with research and data to drive decision making
  • Experience to think at a high level about product strategy and vision
  • Portfolio featuring examples of prototyping and design implementation
Preferred Qualification
  • Experience thriving in dynamic, fast-paced environments
  • Developing knowledge of virtual reality and emerging technologies
  • Game development experience
  • UI development experience
  • Unreal Engine experience
  • Experience in 3D tools such as Maya, 3DS Max or Cinema 4D
  • Android Development Experience
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