AR/MR Unity Rapid Prototyper

USA/ Canada ; Santa Barbara, California (Remote)              ·          Full time

AR/MR Unity Rapid Prototyper

USA/ Canada · Santa Barbara, California (Remote)

Cognixion is an internationally award-winning neuroscience and technology company pioneering the field of Assisted Reality. Cognixion develops AI powered non-invasive BCI (Brain Computer Interface), assistive tech, and delightfully useful applications for people, including those affected by neurodevelopmental disorders and injuries to the brain and spinal cord. With offices in Santa Barbara, California and Toronto, Ontario, the company develops software that helps people with communication challenges express themselves significantly faster than any other solution on the market. For more information, please visit https://cognixion.com.

We’re on a global mission. Join us as we transform the lives of millions of people, and design and develop some of the most advanced technology available. We want this to be your forever home, and the place where you will tell everyone that you’ve done the best work of your life.

Your role: AR/MR Unity Rapid Prototyper

Scope of Responsibilities

• Bridging the gap between BCI, NLP and AR in innovative ways to enable non-verbal individuals communicate in intuitive and personalized ways.
• Collaborate with the UX design team to explore new interaction approaches that leverage biosignal inputs in AR.
• Translate designs from Figma and other design tools into functional prototypes to enable rapid design iteration and user testing.
• Design, develop and test interactive prototypes on the Unity platform for Augmented, Virtual and Mixed reality environments across several platforms.
• Interface with production team to transfer knowledge and prototypes to a production environment.
• Coordinate and lead user studies to gather useability feedback from end users.
• Synthesize user study findings into actionable changes in the functional prototypes.
• Accountable for the development of a prototyping asset toolbox to enable rapid prototyping across the organization.
• Brainstorm and propose innovative ideas to contribute to the advancement of AR speech generating devices using NLP.
• Engage with the wider accessibility and XR community through industry forums and user groups.

Skills & Experience – Must Have

• Proficiency in Unity and C#
• Direct experience with at least one of MRTK, Unity XR Interaction Toolkit or OpenXR.
• Experience implementing the technical aspects of design documents.
• Experience interfacing with third party SDKs.
• Up to date on industry trends and emerging technology, especially in AR/VR/MR, NLP and AI technologies
• Ability to size and scope tasks with minimal guidance.
• Demonstrates understanding of algorithms and common design patterns.
• Ability to break down complicated tasks into bite-sized increments.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in or closely with a UX organization.
• Experience working with novel HMI hardware devices that are in-development.
• Experience with assistive technologies and alternative input methods.
• Experience working with a team of hybrid programmers.
  • Experience with native mobile development for Android.
• Design tools (Figma/Sketch)
• Experience building and delivering Unity platform technologies or assets through the asset store.
• Understand and creates effective dynamic and static software design diagrams and specifications.
• Experience working in an agile software team.

Important Details

• Position can be remote, but Toronto or Santa Barbara based candidates preferred.
• Remote applicants MUST be eligible to work in Canada or USA for several weeks at a time.
• Periodic travel to Toronto Ontario and/or Santa Barbara California will be required.

Job Type: Full-time Employee

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