*Axon requires employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment, unless a medical or religious accommodation is approved. As such, newly hired employees will be required to provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination.
Our Team
We believe that happy teams make the best products, so we foster a friendly, open, introspective team culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind, collaborate together, and have fun. (The team has weekly VR happy hours in headset.)
We believe we can only succeed if we deeply understand our customers and get to know them. We spend a lot of time with law enforcement officers to learn about their needs, watch their experience and see the real impact of our work. We also work closely with our Axon Community Impact team, along with other community subject experts to create our content and curriculum to reflect the needs of both law enforcement + community.
Your Impact
You aren't like everybody else. You aim a little higher. You reach a little further. Your experience is much broader than just a previous career or a few past jobs. You've been listening, learning, and paying attention to recent events which have demonstrated to you why building world-class technology for Public Safety is so important. You do more because it matters to you. And when it comes to looking for that next opportunity, you want to do work that matters to others.
As a founding member of Axon's AR/VR engineering team, you will be responsible for building out the various infrastructure and services that link together the various users in a training session. This can range from enabling the 2-8 trainees to work together in a training scenario, independent of their physical location, while enabling the trainer to view their progress in real time on a tablet. Additionally, you will build out a interface that enables the trainer to communicate with the trainees while in headset, despite potentially not bring in the same physical location. You will also be responsible for the glue that links the various components together. All of this while brainstorm creative ways to overcome challenges with network requirements with potentially low-bandwidth connections.
You will join an interdisciplinary team tackling the biggest challenges in public safety training head-on, including immersive VR-based empathy development training and de-escalation training to help officers engage with the communities they serve with greater awareness and safety. We seek to accomplish this while abiding to the following guiding principles:

• Build AR and VR Solutions for Social Good: With our mission to Protect Life, we develop AR/VR solutions that benefit both law enforcement and the community, while addressing key issues in society.
• Empower Agencies with Data: Deliver ongoing data and analysis that provide agencies with key insights that enable them to make decisions that result in building better, more efficient, and positive programs.
• Develop an Active and Diverse Virtual Platform: Leverage the latest in AR & VR technologies to create a robust portfolio of solutions and the highest-quality content, that enable users to be more effective in their roles and manage the challenges of 21st century public safety.

What You'll Do
Location: Seattle, WA / Remote, United States
Reports to: Engineering Manager
Direct Reports: None

• Working with other engineers on your team to build the next-gen AR/VR training platform for public safety
• Utilizing your passion for quality to ensure the right level of testing, instrumentation, and metrics exist for what you build
• Working with like-minded people who are passionate about our mission
• Working with the latest open source technologies
• Participating in code reviews and architecture design meetings
• Working across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create an integrated solution
• Developing micro-services from initial design to final deployment.

What You Bring

• 5+ years experience creating software for games or real-time systems.
• Expertise in socket programming
• Expertise in OS/platform networking stack
• Expertise in TCP/IP, UDP and other network protocols
• Experience profiling network latency
• Expertise in data encryption
• Expertise in network traffic compression
• Experience shipping one or more real-time software products of high complexity using standard software development tool sets such as source control and continuous integration systems
• You love delighting end users and hunger for novel challenges

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work