WebXR Games Engineer

Nowhere aims to revolutionize gathering.

Patent pending video presence technology allows serendipitous social mingling between conversations with friends or colleagues at conferences, meetings, or parties all within dynamic 3D web environments. Join veteran founders, experience experts, engineers, game designers, theatre makers, VFX artists from Windmill Factory, Escher Reality, Niantic, YC alumni to build a healthier future for social media.

What we're looking for

We are hiring a world-class team of software engineers and creatives to architect, implement, and deploy a consumer-facing product that will empower users to gather meaningfully in NOWHERE 3D worlds.

In these early stages, you must be comfortable iterating quickly: working with the founding team to implement new 3D UI, and ultimately deploy your work in early product releases

Since we are a fully remote company, you thrive in a remote collaborative environment, can quickly integrate feedback into your own vision of the product, and work closely with designers and engineers to refine our overall vision.

What you'll do

• Design and implement interactive webXR experiences that create a sense of presence and play in beautiful 3D environments
• Profile and optimize 3D experiences that will be performant on browsers
• Take full ownership of designing, implementing, running, and maintaining production code on core Nowhere 3D features, end to end.
• Quickly dive in to implementation details working closely with 3D technical artists and other engineers

Qualifications

• Expertise with a WebXR libraries such as three.js, AFrame, BabylonJS, PlayCanvas, AR.js, csg.js, or similar
• Experience integrating with a 3D pipeline and optimizing assets
• Strong knowledge of programming fundamentals, game architecture, and 3D math
• 4+ years experience with Javascript (ES6), HTML5, and CSS
• 2+ years of game development experience or interactive applications in 3D
• Always willing to learn what you do not know in order to create new technology for beautiful 3D experiences
• You want to be part of the founding engineering team building technology that has a direct path to improving how we gather and connect at the human level

Plus if you have experience...

• with Node.js
• with 3D Graphics and shader development (i.e WebGL, OpenGL, Vulkan, DirectX)
• working on a large-scale production web application
• with a component-based framework like React, Svelte or Vue
• with C++ development with Emscripten and WebAssembly

Benefits

• Health insurance with 75% premium covered
• Generous PTO / sick leave
• Equity

More about us

• We are driven by a desire to advance human connection and believe in cultivating diversity as part of excellence, and seek teammates from all backgrounds
• As a remote team, we use asynchronous tools and daily reports to stay in the loop
• We value immediacy, integrity, inclusion, generosity, passionate collaboration, and are building NOWHERE to distribute wealth and power
• See a few fun links below from the team you'd be joining...

Apply Nowhere

Sounds like a fit? Please email [email protected]

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• Tell us a bit about why you're interested and any relevant experience you have
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• Please add links to projects that we can review.
• Thank you so much for your interest
• Find more info here: https://www.notion.so/urnowhere/WebXR-Games-Engineer-1061f5bce7e54042b37beecb6ed4ea3b