Senior Software Engineer, Existent
Unreal Engine
£80-95k
+ Equity (EMI Stock Options)
4 days a week in office (Chiswick, London)
Defining Spatial Computing
Job no longer available
Defining Spatial Computing
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
£80-95k
+ Equity (EMI Stock Options)
4 days a week in office (Chiswick, London)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To allow you to build virtual worlds that allow you to do anything, anywhere, with anyone.
Role
Who you are
- Professional experience with Unreal Engine, with experience working on commercial XR and/or 3D game projects
- Great written and verbal communication skills. Experience working effectively with technical and non-technical team members is important
- Strong general software engineering skills. You should be able to demonstrate that you can understand product requirements and make good trade-offs in order to architect maintainable and performant systems that meet those requirements
- Eligible to work in the UK and able to work from our studio in West London
Desirable
- Experience working with C++
- Experience building XR experiences
- Experience with procedural animation techniques: IK, physics-based animation etc
- Experience as a people manager. As a new company we expect the team to grow so there will be management opportunities arising if that growth path interests you
- Experience working with hardware. Do you think you might be able to jury rig an airsoft gun so that it could be a VR controller or hook up a lever so that it sends signals into UE? That could be useful…
- Experience interviewing engineering candidates. You’ll certainly be part of the interview team as we grow our engineering team so experience doing this would be great but there’s lots of support available from our existing team
What the job involves
- Be one of the very first engineers on the team and help us build a platform for truly next generation VR experiences. Help us solve interesting new problems around joining the real and virtual worlds
- Work with our customers to help them build amazing VR experiences in Unreal Engine
- Help us grow the team by sourcing and interviewing candidates for the engineering and other teams
- Help us create a healthy and fun engineering culture. As one of our first employees you’ll have a huge impact on how we work as well as the product itself
Salary benchmarks
Our take
While VR is capable of creating immersive experiences that far exceed that of traditional gaming, it is limited by its interface, which still consists of game-like controllers and awkward gestures. Out-of-home VR is the next step in VR development, allowing VR-equipped venues to create experiences that extend out of the VR realm, letting users directly interact with the environment around them to control what's happening in the virtual world.
Light Garden was founded in 2021 by a team of veteran engineers and creative professionals with experience in Deliveroo, Twitter, Facebook, Bungie and Guerilla Games among others. Dissatisfied with the existing range of tools for location-based VR, they built out the Existent Platform, a VR system that facilitates two-way communication between the real world and the metaverse by sychronising real world objects with their virtual counterparts. This has achieved a long-held goal of the VR sector : creating a sense of presence where the virtual realm feels as real as the world outside, without the use of controllers or awkward gestures.
Light Garden's platform promises to revolutionise the VR industry. Developers will be able to construct completely immersive and intuitive experiences immediately, without having to build in-house solutions or spend years and vast amounts of money on R&D. Currently in pre-seed, Light Garden is building out its core team and preparing its first public experience powered by the Existent platform. While it's still early days, it will be exciting to see how Light Garden's offering will disrupt the VR sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- 4-Day Week
- Salary tranparency
- EMI option grant
- Pension contributions match up to 4%
- Pre-seed: more benefits to come!
Company HQ
Chiswick, London, UK
Leadership
Dan Webb
(Chief Executive Officer)Veteran software engineer with 10 years in leadership roles. Former VP Engineering at Deliveroo, engineering site lead at Twitter and engineering manager at Facebook Reality Labs.
Andy Brunskill
(Chief Product Officer)They have a wealth of experience in production and theatre, and was Associate Director on the West End production of War Horse, as well as puppetry lead for Coldplay’s “Daddy” music video.
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