Senior XR Software Engineer, Teleoperation

2 days ago

Houston, TX, USASenior

Responsibilities

Design and build headset applications and robot-side services, primarily in Rust.
Develop native OpenXR applications with HUDs, onboarding, in-headset guidance, and support for humanoids, robot arms, and dexterous hands.
Stream stereo video, robot state, and operator commands over Wi-Fi and wide-area networks with low latency and safe degradation behavior.
Implement whole-body, arm, and dexterous-hand motion retargeting and pre-programmed grasps.
Collaborate with locomotion, controls, autonomy, and machine learning engineers to support teleoperation and training-data collection.
Build simulation environments and automated tests for validating changes before deployment to hardware.
Evaluate the system with real operators and improve it based on observed difficulties and feedback.
Support teleoperation at customer sites and mentor junior engineers.

5+ years of professional software experience and a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, or a related field.
3+ years building XR or real-time 3D applications, including shipping an interactive product to real users and improving it from feedback.
Strong systems programming in C++ or Rust and solid Python skills for tooling and test automation; Rust is preferred but not required.
Networking fundamentals including UDP, TCP, and Wi-Fi, with experience shipping latency-sensitive systems over unreliable networks.
Working knowledge of 3D mathematics, including transforms and rotations, and experience debugging software on real hardware under Linux.
Strong ownership and communication across hardware, controls, and machine learning teams.
Preferred experience includes robotics or teleoperation, robot kinematics, tracking, motion retargeting, production Rust, OpenXR on Meta Quest, custom shaders, GPU profiling, video encoding and streaming, H.264/H.265, hardware encoders, forward error correction, MuJoCo, NVIDIA Isaac Sim, or imitation-learning data collection.

Competitive compensation, performance-based bonus, early-stage equity, and competitive PTO.
100% employer-covered medical benefits for most healthcare plans.
Company-wide paid winter break from December 24 through January 2.
Full-time, exempt position based in Houston, Texas, with 10% travel.