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Senior Software Engineer (VR, Rendering)

Recognized by TIME as one of the Best Inventions of 2020, Fast Company’s Best App and covered in the New York Times, Supernatural is a next-generation fitness experience in VR with real coaches, stunning natural environments, music from major record labels, and new workouts released every day. Available now on Oculus Quest and Quest 2.

Developed by a team of passionate world-class experience designers, choreographers, game developers, trainers, and physical fitness experts, Supernatural is a dynamic, immersive experience that is always adapting to your needs, personalized for you - available on-demand in your home.

What you’ll do:

Supernatural is seeking a Senior Rendering Engineer to lead development and support of the rendering systems and runtime pipeline of the Supernatural VR app on Oculus Quest and other VR platforms to generate the highest quality real-time graphics. You’ll partner with product leaders, artists and designers to create a truly compelling, immersive experience as we look to enrich Supernatural with ever more and diverse kinds of modalities, content and visual effects. You’ll refine our architecture and best practices to ensure that we perform at or above spec on all target devices.

This is an ideal role for an experienced AAA game developer who is looking to branch into a new form of visual entertainment and immersion. Supernatural is not just groundbreaking, it is changing people’s lives for the better.

This is also a key role in our organization and we are looking for someone who can provide technical leadership in addition to prodigious output. You’ll mentor and coach other engineers in rendering engineering best-practices. You will apply your passion and love for innovation combined with your excellent communication and interpersonal skills to inspire the growth and development of our engineering discipline.

Responsibilities:

• Lead development of our rendering systems and runtime pipeline
• Develop or enhance visual elements such as shaders, particle systems, UI components or environments
• Improve our architecture and optimize rendering performance
• Prototype new visual concepts
• Develop design-facing tools
• Provide technical support for our live applications and global operations
• Improve our release practices to enable rapid iteration and release of new features to the public
• Collaborate effectively with a multidisciplinary team including product managers, program managers, designers, QA, marketing and other roles
• Help plan and prioritize feature development and improvements
• Help ensure objectives are well-understood by other team members
• Conduct technical design reviews and code reviews
• Build strong relationships across the Engineering discipline
• Develop positive working relationships with peers and customers
• Foster a growth mindset, regularly seek out opportunities for improvement
• Lead with empathy and understanding, create a safe space to share ideas

Required Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• Experience developing in Unity, Unreal or an equally robust game engine
• Prior experience in rendering engineering on 3D games or applications
• Strong math skills
• Experience working on client platforms (game consoles, mobile devices, etc)
• Experience working on a live application at scale, including high frequency shipping cycles
• Ability to lead and mentor engineers, guiding growth in technical skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, communication, both verbally and written
• Work independently with minimal supervision
• Good conflict resolution abilities across the varied disciplines

Desired Qualifications:

• Shipped at least one AAA game or equivalent complexity
• Experience developing VR applications
• Deep expertise in Unity and C#
• Expertise in mobile hardware and how to optimize for performance
• Start-up / entrepreneurial experience

Where you’ll be:

• Our offices are currently closed due to COVID-19. Post COVID, we are giving you the flexibility to work from home should you choose to do so.
• Working hours: We operate within the Pacific time zone for collaboration

At Supernatural, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Supernatural is committed to bringing together individuals from all different backgrounds and perspectives, however applicants from agencies as well as corporation to corporation work will not be considered at this time.

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