Helix AI Engineer, XR
$200k - $400k • San Jose, CA
Posted 9d ago
Job Location
San Jose, CA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping robots with human-level intelligence for home and commercial markets. You will be working within a small but impactful XR team, contributing to critical projects that involve debugging XR applications and running hardware experiments on robots. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on variety and can move quickly without a predefined playbook.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain XR products to interface with robots and data-capture hardware, implementing features, fixing bugs, and ensuring reliability.
- Design and build intuitive spatial user interfaces and visualizations.
- Harden XR data sync processes.
- Integrate custom hardware stacks with off-the-shelf XR headsets.
- Participate in hardware experiments, bug fixes, and new feature development as priorities shift.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on XR development experience with OpenXR, Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine, and/or WebXR.
- Comfortable working in XR for extended periods as a daily environment.
- Strong C++ skills.
- Experience with video streaming and low-latency transmission systems.
- Experience with high-precision motion-capture systems and tracking technologies.
- Startup experience, with the ability to operate with ambiguity and move fast.
- Bonus: computer vision, robotics, custom hardware, cloud APIs, haptics.