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Sandbox VR - Senior Gameplay Programmer Senior Gameplay Programmer Vancouver Content – Engineering / Full Time / Hybrid apply for this job
Who We Are We’re Sandbox VR, the most advanced virtual reality experience in the world . Our mission is to bring people closer together through world-class immersive experiences. When guests step into one of our stores, our full-body motion tracking gear and Hollywood motion capture cameras make them the stars of their own movies. Groups freely roam our large-open “holodecks” together, relying on each other to succeed in social experiences. Whether it’s venturing into space, battling on the high seas, or surviving a zombie apocalypse, our experiences take our guests on a journey they won’t forget! Since launching in 2017, we’ve become the location-based VR industry leader. As we continue to expand globally, there’s never been a better time to join the Sandbox VR team. We take pride in the relationships we are building within our communities by providing world-class experiences for our guests and our employees. Here, we value humility and have built a collaborative environment, ensuring that our guests, and our teammates all win collectively. If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love you to join us, as we build the future of entertainment. Sandbox VR is looking for a Senior Gameplay Programmer to help shape the future of immersive multiplayer VR experiences. In this role, you will bring gameplay to life by building player interactions, AI behaviors, and core systems in Unity, working closely with designers and artists to create engaging, high-quality experiences. You will play a key role in guiding technical direction, mentoring other developers, and delivering polished, performant gameplay that reaches players around the world. What You'll be Doing: Work to implement game mechanics and AI behaviors for our compelling 6-person multiplayer experiences & provide mentorship to other programmers Consistently push the limits of the Unity game engine to maximize the quality of each VR experience. Keep up with the latest features and optimization techniques and decide if, when, and how to incorporate them. Find or develop tools and processes to make the development process more efficient. Actively contribute to creative maintainable code that can be reused across experiences. Own key areas of the experience from technical perspective Experiment with game design and use rapid prototyping to develop features, all while ensuring that strong architectural and algorithmic decisions are made. Work closely with art and design to create and iterate on gameplay features. Fix bugs in existing gameplay systems as required. Contribute ideas toward all aspects of the VR experience’s production and development processes. Write robust, maintainable code.