Unity VR Developer (Tethered Headsets)

Company Overview

Live Planet, Inc. develops infrastructural technologies to enable next-generation video applications. Live Planet was founded by serial entrepreneur Halsey Minor, who to date has founded or co-founded technology companies that have created over $100 billion in cumulative value, including: CNET, Uphold, Salesforce, Google Voice, OpenDNS, and Vignette.

Live Planet's solutions include:

  • The Live Planet VR System: the only end-to-end capture, distribution, and monetization system for immersive video. The Live Planet System makes it easy, practical, and affordable to create and deliver stereoscopic VR and 360° video, whether live or recorded, allowing creators to focus on their productions and applications. (www.LivePlanet.net)
  • The VideoCoin Network: video infrastructure for a blockchain-enabled Internet. The VideoCoin Network is a decentralized video encoding, storage, and content distribution system that turns all cloud-based video services into an efficient algorithmic market running on a new blockchain with a native protocol token, the VideoCoin. (www.VideoCoin.io)

Position overview

We are looking for an experienced Unity developer to build our VR video applications on different platforms such as Oculus, Daydream, Viveport, Playstation VR, Google cardboard to name a few. At Live Planet, you will have an opportunity to make an impact at very early stages of the VR industry. With the numbers of VR platforms rapidly increasing in the market, we are looking to build a seamless and uniform VR interface across the platforms which can be easily extended to new platforms. This is a very exciting position where you will have the opportunity to not only work on Unity development but you will have the chance to closely follow Android and iOS development. This position will also help you understand the 360/VR video playback pipelines and optimizations.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • 2+ years of Unity development experience on mobile platforms
  • Comfortable programming in C#, C++ and Java
  • Experience shipping an app for any VR/Mobile platforms preferably Oculus Rift/Sony Playstation/HTC Vive
  • Experience profiling and debugging unity applications for performance optimizations
  • Basic understanding of 360 stereo video projections such as equirectangular, cubemaps etc.
  • Experience integrating Unity applications with Android stack
  • Solid understanding of unity scenes, objects, shaders, mesh creation etc

Preferred Qualifications:

  • BS or MS in CS, EE or related field
  • 3D Math & 3D Graphics knowledge (OpenGL, DirectX, etc) required
  • Knowledge of image processing or video playback pipeline would be a huge plus
  • SteamVR experience a plus
  • Android NDK integration experience a plus
  • iOS application development experience a plus
  • Algorithm implementation and optimization experience
  • Some knowledge of computer vision algorithms
  • Spatial audio knowledge is a plus

Location: San Francisco Bay Area.

Live Planet is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Want to apply later?

Type your email address below to receive a reminder

Apply to Job

ErrorRequired field
ErrorRequired field
ErrorRequired field
Error
Error
insert_drive_file
insert_drive_file