Job Description
Job Description
W2 Candidates
Game Designer / 3D Software Engineer (Unity Game Developer)
3 Months Contract
Sunnyvale, CA
Summary
- Work on VR robotic surgical simulation games that are used by surgeons around the world to improve their robotic surgical skills. Join a team in collaboration that's part of an organization that works every day to make progress on making a difference in the world.
- We are currently seeking a Unity-centric Game Designer / 3D Software Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary team as a game developer and software engineer working on implementing 3D VR gaming content that enables surgeons to improve robotics skills in a VR robotic surgical environment.
- The successful candidate will effectively apply their passion, discipline, and knowledge and hands-on skills of scalable application development and deployment using Unity on the Windows OS environment.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Design original game designs aligned to our game design language in collaboration with the team to meet target learning objectives
- Rapid/low-fidelity software prototyping for input gathering
- Collaborate with UX and visual design team to integrate sfx and UI elements, as needed
- Ingest and integrate 3D art assets into the game in development
- Write elegant, maintainable, reusable code, leveraging test driven principles to develop high quality applications
- Troubleshoot and resolve bugs and other technical issues
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's in computer science or related fields
- Minimum 3 years' experience in developing and shipping Unity-based applications, preferably in visualization, AR/VR applications, or gaming
- Demonstrated hands-on skills of C/C++/C#
- Experience brainstorming, concepting, and prototyping game designs for critique feedback
- Experience building and shipping Unity apps deploying on the Windows OS platform
- Experience profiling and debugging Unity applications for performance optimizations
- Exceptional attention to detail in UI design implementation
- Passion for design, user experience and implementing user and designer feedback
- Strong communication and team-success oriented collaboration skills
- Excellent programming skills with solid understanding of software engineering techniques, methodologies and attention to detail
- Disciplined debugging skills and tenacious problem solver
- Software development processes including source control, bug tracking, and design documentation
- Familiarity with Agile software development
BONUS CHARACTERISTICS
- Portfolio of original game designs—whether independent or for a studio
- UI motion and animation experience
- Creative problem solver
Job #: 21-20597