Job Description

Technical Designer - VR (Unity)

Location: Austin, TX.

WIN Reality has an exciting opportunity within our VR Team!

The WIN Reality VR Design team works to plan, implement, and improve client-side experiences in our VR baseball training application. Our VR Designers collaborate across teams to utilize our core game platform to offer baseball training experiences that are useful and satisfying to all skill levels.

Required Skills:

• 2+ years professional experience in software development or strong portfolio with playable examples
• Proficiency in C# or similar and Unity or similar
• Strong sense for what makes an interactive medium "feel good"
• Solid understanding of fundamental programming principles
• Shipped at least one title/product in a technical designer or engineering role

Preferred Skills:

• AR/VR mobile, or console development experience
• Understanding of baseball/sports rules and expectations
• Concepting, documenting, and implementing gameplay systems with art and engineering support
• Strong understanding of Quality Assurance methods and processes

Qualities We're Looking for:

• Takes ownership of a feature from understanding the product needs through to articulating art and engineering support and finally to implementation and testing.
• Enjoys spending time with a feature to make sure it is good, not just meets a specification.
• Upholds code/content standards and best practices.

Immediate Initiatives in this role:

• Improve the interactive experience while in VR, streamlining interactions and making them both clear in purpose and satisfying to do over and over.
• Extend the training information presented to players, helping them see and understand the information they need to become better hitters.
• Improve the virtual hitting simulation and ball flight behaviors.
• Create new training experiences.
• Create and expand on features that give players a reason to keep coming back for new content/challenges.
• Add more life and variety to the experience on the field.
• Implement and improve VR based UI elements and menus.

WIN Reality VR Development Stack:

• Game Engine: Unity 2020.x
• Platform: VR - Oculus Quest
• Scripting Language: C#
• Version Control: PlasticSCM
• Project Management/Communication: Slack, Basecamp, Jira

WIN Reality offers:

• Competitive Base Salary, Benefits (Health/Dental/Vision), generous PTO, Paid Holidays, and a Beautiful Office Space overlooking Lake Austin w/ Onsite Fitness Center. 
• WIN Reality swings for a Fun & Energetic Culture that knocks it out of the Park.

WIN Reality is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed may vary depending on the nature of your employment with WIN Reality.