Virtual Reality Developer Jobs | VR Engineering & SDK Experts

Virtual reality developer jobs are centered on building interactive 3D applications that feel comfortable, responsive, and believable inside a headset. VR teams ship everything from games and social worlds to enterprise training, simulation, therapy, and visualization tools. The work combines real-time software engineering with an understanding of human comfort and spatial interaction.

Most VR engineering roles are built on Unity (C#) or Unreal Engine (C++/Blueprints), often with OpenXR as the runtime layer. Day-to-day responsibilities can include implementing interaction systems (grabbing, UI pointers, hand tracking), physics and locomotion, haptics, audio spatialization, and in-world UI. Developers also tune performance and rendering to hit stable frame rates, reduce motion-to-photon latency, and avoid stutter. For standalone headsets, careful memory and GPU budgeting is part of the job.

Many teams work with platform SDKs for device-specific features such as passthrough, scene understanding, eye tracking, or advanced input. You may also collaborate with 3D artists and technical artists to ensure assets are optimized (LOD, batching, light baking, shader complexity). Multiplayer and social VR roles can add networking, voice, and moderation systems, while enterprise roles may involve device management, authentication, and integration with existing services.

Keywords to look for include Unity or Unreal, OpenXR, XR Interaction Toolkit, SteamVR, headset performance optimization, and real-time 3D. The strongest VR engineers demonstrate both technical depth and a practical understanding of the user experience inside a headset.

With salary only68 jobs

Senior Manual QA

Lucid Reality Labs

Remote • Warsaw, Poland

Posted 20 days ago

Software Engineer - Systems & Rendering Performance (Freeform), Vision Products Software

Apple

Cupertino, CA, USA

139k-258k $

Posted 21 days ago

Software Engineer III, AI/ML, Extended Reality

Google

San Jose, USA • San Francisco, USA

141k-202k $

Posted 22 days ago

Senior Graphics Engineer XR

Unity

Bellevue, USA

111k-146k $

Posted 23 days ago

AR/VR Software Development Engineer, Vision Products Software

Apple

Cupertino, USA

132k-199k $

Posted 24 days ago

XR Technical Lead, AI Interactions

Google

San Jose, USA

197k-291k $

Posted 24 days ago

Senior Full Stack Javascript Developer

Lucid Reality Labs

Remote • Warsaw, Poland

Posted 25 days ago

Sr. Manager, Product Management – PC & XR-VR

Samsung

Plano, USA

Posted 28 days ago

Software Engineer, Open XR Experience

Google

Taipei, Taiwan

Posted 1 month ago

Product Management Lead, ER Device

Google

San Jose, USA

183k-271k $

Posted 1 month ago

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