Lead Gameplay Engineer

Company: Verb Surgical
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: January 17, 2020

Job Description:

Company DescriptionVerb Surgical--- is shaping the future of surgery. A new future, a future unimagined even a few years ago, which will involve machine learning, robotic surgery, instrumentation, advanced visualization, and data analytics. A future of surgery that aims to achieve improved patient outcomes, lower costs, and greater hospital efficiency.

Verb Surgical was founded with technology, expertise, and funding from Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences) and Ethicon, a medical device company in the Johnson & Johnson family of companies. This company will continue in strong partnership with Verily and Johnson & Johnson (Google and Johnson & Johnson Team for Robotic Surgery) to advance the surgical tools and capabilities available to surgeons and OR professionals today.Job DescriptionMission: You will be working with a top-notch multi-disciplinary team to develop virtual reality visualization applications for a training of our digital surgery platform. Our work has similar applications to Johnson & Johnson's recent announcement at Oculus Connect 6, but we're building something more advanced in terms of both scale and design. You are a game developer that will improve surgical motor skills and train operating room staff on how to use our robot. Additionally, you will visualize 3D reconstructions of patients and environments in Unity, pre-visualize and test our company's hardware prototypes, and guide users through complex surgical information in a natural way. Our team's work directly influences the development of our own robot and the widespread adoption of surgical robotics in medicine.

Key Accountabilities:

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• Develop software for novel concepts of interactive 3D VR environments
• Investigate, prototype, and refine virtual reality experiences for professional education experiences.
  
  
  QualificationsProfessional Experience/Skills/Background to be successful in this role:
  
  Required Qualifications
  
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  • Experience in Unity (2+ years)
  • Programming Ability: C#
  • Experience with managing GIT code reviews, merges, etc.
  • Ability to come up with custom software solutions to solve new problems
  • Solid understanding of software concepts
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    
    Preferred Qualifications
    
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    • Experience with Lua, and C++
    • Experience with head mounted displays or virtual reality visualization
    • Solid background in virtual reality or simulation for education
    • Shareable coding samples that demonstrate programming ability
      
      
      Additional InformationEducation/ Training/ Certifications: Degree in computer science, game engineering, or other related fields
      
      Physical Demands: This role does have any physical demand requirements

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