Job Description

Software Engineer

1 year contract with extensions

Must Haves:

-Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar

-4 years of Python, C++ (including Modern C++ features), Linux and command line utilities

-Experience working with software that’s interfacing with hardware sensors and cameras, audio systems, and/or lighting systems. Sensors is absolute must!

-Experience with Software development practices such as source control, code reviews, unit testing, debugging, and profiling

-Experience developing GUI applications

Pluses:

-Experience with QT Library

-Experience with 0MQ

Day to Day:

Insight Global is hiring a Software Engineer for a large Tech company in Pittsburgh that is dedicated to the research and development required to bring virtual and augmented reality to billions of people around the world. They aspire to a vision of social VR and AR, where people are able to interact with each other across distances in a way that is indistinguishable from in-person interactions.

The successful candidate will have deep understanding of computing at multiple levels of abstraction, from theory, to hardware interfaces, to operating systems, to user facing application and large-scale distributed systems. You understand contemporary software design and engineering practices. You thrive in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities

Develop high-performance software to collect data from sensors in our capture system.

Develop methods to verify sensors are behaving properly and returning high quality data.

Support and evaluate device hardware, software, and firmware updates.

Implement robust processes for testing capture system changes prior to pushing to live servers.

Collaborate with vendors to troubleshoot hardware issues.

Collaborate with our user studies team to understand common failure cases, ascertain root causes, and improve the data capture experience.