Software Engineer, Augmented Reality, Level 4
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Los Angeles, California
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Demonstrable passion for creating spatial experiences.
- Experience using AI as part of your engineering workflow, including how you plan, build, verify, review, and learn, with sound judgment about when and where to leverage it.
- Experience defining technical roadmaps and driving cross-functional alignment.
- Experience partnering with platform, infrastructure, or systems teams to influence API design and service capabilities.
- Understanding of modern UI frameworks and patterns, especially for real-time 3D applications.
- Understanding of building real-time applications that interface with external services.
- Familiarity with shaders and technical art.
Full description
Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.
The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.
Specs Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Snap Inc. dedicated to making computing more human. The company develops Specs, advanced eyewear that seamlessly integrates digital experiences into the physical world.
Specs feature see-through lenses that place digital objects directly into three-dimensional space, powered by Snap OS, a proprietary, context-aware operating system designed for natural interaction with your hands and voice.
Specs Inc. also provides Lens Studio, a full suite of advanced developer tools that powers immersive augmented reality experiences across Specs, Snapchat, and other services.
We’re looking for an AR Engineer to join the Lenses Platform team at Snap Inc!
What you’ll do:
- Advance and build the holistic look, feel, and flow of interactions and interfaces for all user-facing software on Spectacles.
- Maintain and expand the consistent and unified user experience across the entire Snap OS software platform.
- Create and empower spatial experiences through our human-centered and multi-modal interactive and UI systems, which enable natural and intuitive interactions in augmented reality.
- Contribute to the technical planning and execution of complex user-facing AR applications, driving architectural decisions and technical direction from concept to delivery.
- Design and implement deep integrations with system-level features, services, and platform APIs to extend AR application capabilities and deliver seamless user experiences.
- Build performant real-time 3D applications optimized for resource-constrained AR hardware.
- Partner across Engineering, Design, Product, Program Management and other disciplines to define and execute the roadmap for AR applications and use-cases.
- Mentor and develop other AR Engineers, elevating team capabilities and fostering technical growth.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Strong 3D math and software engineering fundamentals with data structures and algorithms.
- Proven ability to build complex technical projects and drive architectural decisions.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills working across Engineering, Design, Product, and Program Management disciplines.