TJ 19503 - SENIOR CRAFT SPECIALIST XR DEVELOPER (PROJECT CONTRACT)

Employer Description

A creative production studio driven by innovation, impact, and immersive storytelling. We specialise in crafting high-end visual content, from cutting-edge motion design and animation to interactive eLearning, VR, and simulation experiences

Job Description

• Developing advanced VR/XR applications and immersive training experiences in Unity.
• Translating project and client requirements into appropriate technical requirements,
• Supporting the technical setup and initialisation of XR projects, including selecting appropriate development tools, frameworks, SDKs and technologies.
• Configuring and maintaining development environments, repositories, XR SDKs and build pipelines.
• Conducting technical feasibility assessments and proof-of-concepts
• Designing and developing immersive XR interactions, object behaviours, physics-based interactions, UI/UX systems and multimodal feedback.
• Creating intuitive and comfortable XR experiences
• Profiling and optimising applications across CPU, GPU, memory, assets, shaders, textures and runtime performance.
• Optimising code for maintainability, scalability and performance.
• Integrating and maintaining VR/AR SDKs and platform technologies.
• Reviewing code and providing technical guidance to other XR Developers.
• Supporting prototypes and experimentation with new technologies, tools, workflows and scalable XR product opportunities.

Qualifications

Degree/Diploma

Skills

• Unity development within VR, XR, game development, simulation or another interactive real-time environment.
• Advanced working knowledge of C# and object-oriented programming.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, reusable code, maintainability and scalable development practices
• experience developing VR/XR applications for commercial, training, simulation or comparable environments.
• Strong experience with Unity XR development tools and SDKs.
• Experience implementing complex XR interactions, object behaviours, physics and UI systems.
• Strong understanding of XR UX, usability and interaction principles.
• Experience profiling and optimising Unity applications for CPU, GPU and memory performance.
• Strong Git/version-control discipline, including branching and merging practices.
• Ability to take technical responsibility for assigned areas of complex XR projects.
• Strong experience with OpenXR, XR Interaction Toolkit and/or other major XR SDKs.
• Experience developing for Meta Quest, Pico and other VR/XR hardware platforms.
• Experience with VR/XR training simulators or industrial simulation environments.
• Experience integrating software with physical simulator controls and hardware.
• Working knowledge of Arduino, Raspberry Pi or embedded/controller systems.
• Experience integrating custom switches, pedals, sensors, controllers or other physical inputs with Unity.
• Experience with serial communication, middleware, Node.js or hardware/software communication interfaces.

Salary/Package

R30 000 R38 000 (Negotiable)

Benefits

To be confirmed