Senior VR Teleoperation Graphics Engineer

Walden Robotics, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual cash bonus

Company equity

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Daily lunch

Job summary

Walden Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineer to own major headset-side components of the teleoperation system. You will drive the immersive OpenXR application, optimizing graphics, latency and power while handling head and hand tracking, reprojection and multi-headset compatibility.

You will collaborate with robotics, networking and UX teams to deliver end-to-end features, from design through deployment, across real deployments and on-device prototypes.

Qualifications

• Shipped real-time graphics or XR software in production, with knowledge of compositors, timewarp and frame pacing.
• Strong command of projective geometry, camera models and pose tracking in real-time graphics.
• Expertise in Vulkan/OpenGL ES shader programming and mobile optimization.
• Proficiency with OpenXR stack across sessions, spaces, tracking, and swapchains.
• Advanced C++ skills on the real-time path and Python for tooling.
• Experience using AI coding tools to boost productivity in real-time code paths.
• Ability to lead features from design through deployment with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve the core of the operator application beneath the UI-frame loop, streaming client, rendering and platform layer.
• Develop headset tracking through OpenXR, return haptic feedback, and integrate with robot feedback loops.
• Implement pose prediction, frame timing, reprojection and compositing to stabilize the operator's view.
• Profile and optimize rendering on Snapdragon-based XR headsets to keep framerate and power in check.
• Instrument latency, power, framerate and GPU cost to drive improvements.
• Ensure cross-headset compatibility across Meta, Android XR, Pico and Steam.
• Collaborate with robotics, networking and UX engineers to land features end-to-end.

Skills

OpenXR

C++

Real-Time Graphics

Python tooling

Vulkan

OpenGL ES

Performance profiling

Tracking

Tools

Perfetto

RenderDoc

Job description

Walden Robotics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Engineer to own major headset-side components of the teleoperation system. You will drive the immersive OpenXR application, optimizing graphics, latency and power while handling head and hand tracking, reprojection and multi-headset compatibility.

You will collaborate with robotics, networking and UX teams to deliver end-to-end features, from design through deployment, across real deployments and on-device prototypes.