Remote Senior Software Engineer, Avatar

Summary

Join the Avatars team at Rec Room to help expand player expression and creative exchange capabilities, architecting and building systems for avatar customization.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional interactive 3D software or games development experience (preferably using Unity engine)
• Fluency in C# with experience with memory and performance optimization in Unity
• Experience debugging and extending complex, multi-threaded systems
• Experience shipping a multiplayer game that is used cross-platform on 3D mobile, consoles, and PC screens
• Experience with building systems around animation, and real-time skinned meshes

Responsibilities

• Architect new systems that will expand the capabilities of the core avatar systems, adding new forms of avatar expression, and improving the look, feel, and movement of our players
• Work closely with our first-party art team who will represent our creators and be the major design stakeholders to guide us to a delightful creation experience
• Work closely with partner development teams, including Economy, Building Blocks, Interfaces, Creator Tools, and Rec Room Studio, to deliver systems that help creators enjoy the creation of new avatar customization options, find an audience, build a market, and deliver delight to players
• Evolving existing avatar systems to improve usability, add quality-of-life features for creators, and improve memory and compute performance across all of our platforms
• Build and extend easy-to-use open-sourced Blender pipeline tools that will be shared with our creator community to help them more easily add content to our platform
• Be involved in documenting and sharing the creation process with our creator community via blogs, online docs and videos, and Discord
• Review and maintain the code for the avatar systems that exist and that you will build

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building artist-friendly pipelines for exporting animated assets
• Experience shipping VR games
• You’ve worked with a modern version of Unity (2020+) for at least a year
• Experience with live services and rapid deployment (we ship a new version of our game every week)

Benefits

• Flexible vacation
• Medical, dental, and vision plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and your children
• Retirement benefits with a company match
• Unlimited paid time off
• Life and disability coverage
• Long-term care insurance
• FSA
• Commuter benefits
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Parental leave program