About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

• We are currently seeking systems engineers with a passion for technology to develop the next generation of digital humans and avatars.
• The ideal candidate has experience with multi-camera capture systems, capable of quickly learning how to work with new custom devices, including hardware setup, capture, calibration, system upgrades, and data transfer.
• In this role, you will partner with research scientists, hardware engineers, software engineers, and various XFNs to build and run our client's state-of-the-art capture systems that are used to fuel research to create drivable virtual humans and enable human representation (Avatars/Holograms/photorealistic telepresence) for next generation VR/AR applications.

Job Title:Systems Engineer II

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct data capture sessions, data annotations, data processing and QA using commercial and proprietary software and hardware.
• Build scripts, small components that help improve the system or automate aspects of data capture setup and usage.
• Assemble, debug and verify capture systems with predefined needs and specifications by collaborating with hardware engineers, motion capture vendors and internal engineering/research teams.
• Test existing capture systems end to end for accuracy and correctness. Find sources of error and isolate them to specific components.
• Provide technical feedback for quality, stability and system output by monitoring system and infrastructure effectiveness.
• Provide milestones and timelines for project management.
• Identify and escalate blockers and slowdowns in processes, work with partners and leadership to resolve and unblock projects.
• Produce technical documentations for capture systems.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in scripting and automation, such as Python and shell scripts (e.g. bash, zsh etc.).
• Proficient in working with Linux and/or Windows operating systems and using command line.
• Experience working in a production capture setting.
• Experience in debugging, profiling, and troubleshooting both software and hardware issues.
• Experience working on applied research and/or product development involving joint hardware/software design, development, and integration.
• Hands-on, resourceful, and creative in problem-solving with a can-do attitude.
• Curious in learning new and experimental technologies and quick to apply them in day-to-day work.
• Comfortable communicating with both technical and nontechnical audiences by adapting to their background.
• Experience in working with cross-functional teams on building systems that involve Engineering, Research, Product Design, and external clients.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience working with capture systems.
• Experience working with or developing with VR or mobile devices.
• Experience working in a production capture setting.
• Experience working with distributed systems and/or cloud services.
• Experience with programming and familiar with common programming languages such as Python and C/C++.
• Experience with source control systems.
• Experience working with or using open-source software.
• Experience in fault analysis or failure mode analysis.
• Experience with setting up, maintaining, and working with multi-camera systems, depth sensors, IMUs, and putting these together to collect data in a unified capture system.
• Experience and knowledge of camera synchronization (e.g. Timecode, genlock, etc.) and real time systems.
• Experience taking a system from concept to deployment.

Location: Sausalito, CA (Fully Onsite)

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $93,600 – $124,800 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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