Job Description

Instagram is looking for someone to join the Instagram AR Design team as a Creative Coder. AR Design is responsible for creating new AR experiences, pioneering new AR Capabilities, designing creative tools for the Reels surface and supporting Metaverse initiatives. Your position is a hybrid of art, design, and software engineering, and you should be able to not only generate and prototype great experiences, but carry them through to polished, bug-free, performant code releases.

Creative Coder - Instagram Responsibilities:

• Code real-time interactive experiences in GLSL and JavaScript through multiple iterations up to polished release
• Prototype interactive augmented reality experiences using Spark AR Studio and other standard creative tools
• Communicate interactive concepts effectively in writing, images, storyboards, and videos
• Creatively solve problems in translating effects ideas into code execution
• Generate new ideas for effects
• Collaborate closely with art, design, engineering, product, QA, research, and partnership teams from conception to launch
• Learn from data on released effects to refine existing effects and develop new ones
  
  

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience writing OpenGL/GLSL Shaders and JavaScript
• A link to an online portfolio showcasing your work
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing interactive augmented reality, computer vision, and/or face-tracking interactive experiences
• Demonstrated experience in the entertainment, video game, or digital marketing industries
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or BA in Media Arts or equivalent program
• Experience in Spark AR, SparkSL or other augmented reality environments
• Experience with creative coding frameworks like openFrameworks, Processing, Cinder, Max/MSP, Unity3D, After Effects
• Experience with 3D production pipelines and integration of 2D and 3D assets into real-time applications
• Experience with visual programming or visual node based applications like Unreal Blueprints, Houdini, Nuke
  
  

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