Job Description

.CES Innovation Award Winner Black Box VR is looking for a VR Systems Engineer to help take our VR systems to the next level!

Who we are

At Black Box, we create the future of fitness! We combine the myriad health benefits of resistance training with the quick reward loops of mobile gaming to provide an immersive, ever-evolving VR experience that keeps our members coming back into the gym! Black Box VR tracks every aspect of member workouts and delivers a quantified-self style report showing progress over time, next milestones, and more. Black Box VR uses learning algorithms to track each workout performance and adjusts our patented resistance subsystem to keep progressing Black Box VR members in achieving their fitness goals!

Position:

As a VR Systems Engineer you will play a key role in helping to shape, develop, and test our VR and hardware stack. The ideal candidate will help build, maintain, and troubleshoot our expanding VR infrastructure. They will work alongside other engineers to ensure highest levels of performance and ability, and manage any problems that arise. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about VR and stay up to date on the latest VR, AR, and tracking technologies. This role will work closely with software and hardware stakeholders to help brainstorm and implement solutions. You will help to work on code and also lead other developers.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working with VR hardware and tracking systems
• Experience working with low level VR/AR/tracking firmware
• Experience integrating with hardware and software
• Experience developing/integrating with OpenVR/OpenXR
• Good communication skills working with different teams and coordinating solutions
• Programming skills (C#)
• IT experience with enterprise environments
• Experience in configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting VR systems
• Degree or relevant experience

Responsibilities:

• Create and validate qualitative test procedures for different VR and tracking environments.
• Remain up to date with current VR and tracking technologies. 
• Developing solutions for a reliable enterprise VR use case
• Coordinating with hardware vendors
• Responsible for working on software that connects our VR game,hardware system, and enterprise support software
• Help develop high level plans to integrate our VR systems into a wider IT plan
• Develop software for integrating into our hardware and VR systems

Bonus:

• Experience in Unity
• WPF Experience
• C++, Java Script
• Fitness enthusiast
• Industry connections
• AWS