Software Engineer at Unknown Company in San Francisco, CA

About the job

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Our client's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to our client's needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

The Nova team functions as the incubation and rapid prototyping engine for their platform responsible for quickly vetting new ideas, implementing them, and transitioning mature capabilities to production teams. This is a small but collaborative group, with many cross-functional partners across Engineering, Product Management, UX Design and UX Research. This group is working closely with teammates across their platform, focused on incubating solutions to open questions for our client's platform first product, supporting our demo and sales funnel experiences, and unlocking learnings about future applications and experiences that are powered by our unique hardware, outside of our immediate product plans.

The application is a true-to-life new communication technology from our client that allows people to feel like they’re having real face-to-face conversations, no matter the distance. Powered by realistic state-of-the-art 3D imaging and spatial audio and integrated with today’s leading remote video platforms, their applicable enables you to be immersed in the moment, together. As a part of the our client team, you'll work with incredible teammates across all major functions in a fast-paced product-oriented environment. Your contributions will have an impact on the future of communications with our client's products. You will apply technology to solve that really important problem that we often want to be together and we can’t.

Responsibilities

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• Architect and implement software features for our client's platform, spanning demonstration tools and core end-user product experiences.
• Lead the engineering execution for critical demos and public events, ensuring software stability and high visual quality under tight deadline.
• Partner with UX, Beam Studios (film production), and hardware teams to translate requirements into production-ready solutions and validate new display technologies.
• Prototype and iterate on new interactive software features that showcase the unique capabilities of the our client's platform.

* Design and maintain the team's internal prototyping infrastructure and conduct technical "spikes" to evaluate 3D telepresence technology for new verticals like retail and healthcare.

Our client is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also our client's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

•Develop next-generation technologies for our client's products

•Work on critical projects aligned with our client's needs

•Switch teams and projects as business evolves

•Collaborate with cross-functional teams

•Vet new ideas and implement them rapidly

•Transition mature capabilities to production teams

Qualifications

•Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

•2 years of software development experience in C++

•2 years of experience in software product testing

•Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science preferred

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year