Helix AI Engineer, XR

Figure; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Figure is an AI robotics company in San Jose building a general-purpose humanoid. Join our XR team to contribute to projects spanning debugging XR apps to hardware experiments and data capture for our robot platform.

You will work with OpenXR, Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine, or WebXR, and apply strong C++ skills to build scalable XR interfaces and integrations. A fast-moving startup mindset is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on XR development experience with OpenXR, Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine, or WebXR.
• Comfort working in XR daily; this is your main environment, not a sporadic tool.
• Strong C++ skills and hardware integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain XR products to interface with robots and data-capture hardware, implementing features and fixing bugs.
• Design and develop intuitive spatial user interfaces and visualizations.
• Integrate custom hardware stacks with off-the-shelf XR headsets.
• Adapt to shifting priorities by jumping between experiments, fixes, and new features.

Skills

XR development

C++

OpenXR

Unity

Godot

Unreal Engine

WebXR

Video streaming

Low-latency

Motion-capture

Tools

OpenXR

Unity

Godot

Unreal Engine

WebXR

Video streaming

Low-latency transmission

Motion-capture systems

Job description

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid. Our humanoid robot, Figure 03, is designed for commercial tasks and the home. We are based in San Jose, CA and require 5 days/week in-office collaboration. It's time to build.

Figure is building the world's most capable general-purpose humanoid robot. XR systems play a key role in teaching our robots how to understand the world around them.

The Role

You'll be working within our small but impactful XR team, contributing to a number of critical projects. One morning you might be debugging an XR app, the next afternoon you're running a hardware experiment on the robot. You'll thrive here if you love that kind of variety and move fast without needing a playbook.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain XR products to interface with our robots and data-capture hardware - implementing features, fixing bugs, and ensuring reliability as we scale
• Design and build out intuitive spatial user interfaces and visualizations
• Integrate custom hardware stacks with off-the-shelf XR headsets
• Jump across hardware experiments, bug fixes, and new feature development as priorities shift

What We're Looking For

• Deep hands-on XR development experience - OpenXR, Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine, and/or WebXR
• Comfortable working in XR for extended periods; this is your daily environment, not an occasional tool
• Strong C++
• Experience with video streaming and low-latency transmission systems
• Experience with high-precision motion-capture systems and tracking technologies
• Startup experience - you know how to operate with ambiguity and move fast
• Bonus: computer vision, robotics, custom hardware, cloud APIs, haptics

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.