Senior Unity/VR Developer - PT - US-based

Project overview:

Our client is building a VR drone-simulation training tool on a MetaQuest 3 headset (evaluating alternatives), using bare-hand control instead of controllers. A hand-based "typing" interaction (anchor points on the hand mapped to keys) is already prototyped. Remaining work: integrating that interaction system, and new gesture-based flight controls, into a third-party VR flight/drone simulator (not built from scratch).

Core responsibilities:

• Own the Unity/VR application layer end-to-end
• Integrate the existing hand-tracking interaction system into a licensed third-party simulator
• Design gesture-to-flight-control mappings (movement, roll, pitch, yaw) in collaboration with the CV/hand-tracking engineer — this is undefined, invented-as-you-go work, not a fixed spec
• Consume hand-tracking/skeleton data (from the headset's native hand-tracking API and/or the CV engineer's custom output) and turn it into in-simulator controls
• Mentor and eventually manage 1–2 developers hired later

Required skills:

• Strong Unity + C# (confirmed stack elements)
• Proven VR development experience, ideally with Meta Quest / Meta XR SDK
• Experience with XR input systems (hand-tracking APIs, gesture-based interaction), not necessarily building CV models from scratch
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, evolving scope

Nice to have:

• Flight simulation or drone control software experience
• Prior lead/management experience
• Experience integrating third-party simulation assets/SDKs