Job Description

About Wingsure:

Wingsure, an Insurtech company, uses deep tech to deliver instant access to personalized insurance products and advisories for small farmers and rural communities globally, enabling financial resilience, economic empowerment and sustainability of livelihood. Using AI/ML, augmented reality, multi-modal interactivity and gamification, we are leading a farmer-centered, technology-driven disruption of legacy insurance approaches to automate the entire insurance value chain and  create profitable new products and markets across the agriculture and insurance ecosystem. Wingsure is a spin-out from SRI International (www.sri.com), the birthplace of some of the world's most important research and innovations. We are assembling a mission-driven team of technologists, agronomists, earth scientists, and actuarial analysts to build the Wingsure platform in collaboration with SRI. We seek to provide an open and exciting work environment, which offers immense opportunities for learning and growth in a high-performance culture and embraces diversity of people and ideas. 

Job Description:

Position: Augmented Reality Engineer

Experience: 5+ years

Location: New York, Silicon Valley, India or Serbia

Summary:

Do you love blurring the line between the real and the virtual, creating memorable user experiences in an augmented reality? Are you a problem-solver by nature who loves trouble-shooting to ensure seamless AR experiences across devices? And would you like to direct your outstanding technical capabilities towards addressing some of the pressing challenges facing humanity? If your answer to each of the above questions is “yes”, then we are looking for you!

Wingsure is seeking applications for an Augmented Reality (AR) Engineer position within our Engineering R&D team to lead the development of innovative and engaging AR and game experiences that are key enablers of Wingsure’s Farmer-First approach. The work offers novel challenges as we seek to deploy AR experiences for new user categories and across mobiles phones with resource constraints. You will work in a growing, multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, data scientists, architects, agronomists and earth scientists who are bringing their complementary skills to craft a 360-degree approach towards mitigating farming risks and providing personalized training and advisories. This work is being done in close collaboration with AR and AI researchers at SRI International (www.sri.com), offering an outstanding global platform for showcasing your talent as well as enriching your skills and network.

You should be well-versed with AR principles and frameworks, comfortable wearing the dual hats of creative AR designer and reliable performance trouble-shooter, and passionate about working in a dynamic start-up environment that seeks to leverage your talent to transform the lives of some of the most under-served communities in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with the product management and engineering teams to conceive novel AR experiences for Wingsure’s user base of farmers and rural community members
• Take ownership of AR lifecycle development, and provide reliable time-estimates for the same
• Transform design specification into functional AR assets on mobile devices (especially Android) and integrate with other mobile applications and games to enrich end user experience
• Write high-quality and well-documented functional code, adhering to industry-best practices for AR development
• Actively participate in iterative software development following agile principles and regularly report on the progress of your work, showcasing new designs and interaction patterns
• Collaborate with UX designers to develop creative and appealing visual design
• Perform thorough testing of software across a variety of devices, address defects and optimize performance, provide quick resolution of production issues
• Deliver software on time, meeting all functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring high quality, performance and responsiveness of AR applications and games
• Conduct user studies and pilots to gather data and feedback, and plan subsequent development

Technical Skills:

• In-depth knowledge and extensive development experience across a variety of AR toolkits (e.g., ARCore, Vuforia, Wikitude, ARToolkit) and game development platforms (e.g., Unity, Unreal Engine)
• Strong UI/UX, modelling, animation and graphics rendering skills
• Excellent object-oriented programming/scripting skills (e.g., C#, Java)
• Experience with Android application development. Excellent troubleshooting and optimization skills for AR deployment in different mobile devices
• Hands-on experience with collaborative coding repositories (e.g., GitHub, Bitbucket)
• Experience working with various game assets (e.g., meshes, animations, materials etc.)
• Understanding of UX design process and experience in working with UX design and development team
• Experienced in agile software development practices

Other skills:

•  Critical thinking and problem solving: should be able to provide innovative solutions to complex problems in design, development and deployment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills: able to work effectively with product managers, architects, UI/UX designers, engineers, testers
• Self-motivated and willing to learn new technologies and business domains (especially related to Finance/Insurance/Agriculture) to provide hyper-personalized user experience

Academic/Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, and with a strong track record of academic accomplishments
• Professional certifications related to Programming, AR/VR, Game Development