Interactive Immersive Media Computer Graphics/Game Engineer

[snibbe]

Interactive Immersive Media Computer Graphics/Game Engineer

http://www.snibbeinteractive.com/careers/immersive_engineer

Snibbe Interactive (www.snibbeinteractive.com), an award winning, world-renowned social interactive media company, is seeking a full-time software engineer with 3D graphics/video game and computer vision experience. We are looking for an independent engineer who is an expert with game development technologies and engines and high quality software engineering to create re-usable software systems. You will create physically reactive installations that incorporate computer graphics, gaming, computer vision, and web technologies at Snibbe Interactive's San Francisco location. 


Snibbe Interactive creates magical spaces where marketing, retail, museums, and entertainment become interactive personalized social experiences. People use their whole bodies to interact with our SocialSpace products in a process as engaging as a movie and as social as a conversation. Using SocialShare technology, people create personalized videos they share in online social networks like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube to exponentially increase reach. Our products create strong positive social experiences and lasting impressions. We are a market leader due to our reputation for quality, reliability, social engagement, and fourteen years' experience. More than twenty-million people have experienced our interactive work in more than twenty countries on five continents.

Key Skills Required:

Video Game/Computer Graphics programming: 3D, simulation, OpenGL
Experience with Game development tools - Unity, Virtools, or other.
Software engineering skills - the ability to integrate into a large, relatively well engineered vision/graphics system while improving and extending it
Excellent interpersonal and communications skills

Skills and interest in the following areas are also useful:

Masters' degree or equivalent in Computer Science (Vision, Graphics or Interface)
Familiarity with Windows development and running environments, ability to troubleshoot drivers, graphics cards, and video capture
Computer vision programming - OpenCV and other libraries
Web based user interfaces

Responsibilities:

Design and program immersive interactive installations from start to finish using both our proprietary systems and game development tools
Make enhancements to underlying graphics/vision software framework
Document your work with comments, source control logs, and wiki entries
Debug and test your work
Work closely with creative staff to translate designs and concepts into software systems
Communicate with engineering, project management, business and creative staff regularly and effectively

The work we do is technically sophisticated, often at the level of contemporary research. You will have an opportunity to make a contribution to international public interactive media projects seen each year by millions of people. This is a wonderful position for a terrific engineer with interests in the arts, gaming or museum exhibits who wants a uniquely satisfying job. Snibbe Interactive provides a positive, playful and kind workplace with an emphasis on our social mission of bringing delight, meaning and new forms of social interaction to the general public. The full-time position includes company stock options, health and dental insurance, and 401(k) plan participation.
Please send a letter of interest, a resume, and sample work to techjobs@snibbeinteractive.com. We will request interviews and recommendation letters from top candidates.