AR/VR Developer Intern

About GalaxEye

The short version

We're starting to
explore what our satellite and geospatial data looks like when you can step inside it — terrain, imagery, and
analytics rendered in AR/VR instead of on a flat screen. This is a new effort
for us, and you'd be one of the first people building it.

What makes this different

Most AR/VR
internships have you building a game, a demo, or a marketing filter. Here the
content is real geospatial data —
satellite imagery, terrain, and analytics from actual Earth-observation
systems. That changes the interesting problems:

• The "world" isn't
  hand-modelled art — it's real terrain and imagery that has to be loaded,
  placed, and made explorable in 3D space.
  
• You're visualizing data that
  means something, for people who need to understand it, not just look at it.
  
• Immersive GIS is largely
  unexplored territory — there isn't a tutorial for most of what we'll try,
  so a lot of the work is figuring out what even works.
  
• It's early and greenfield:
  fewer guardrails, more room to shape the direction, and your prototypes
  genuinely inform where this goes.
  

If "there's no
tutorial for this yet" sounds exciting rather than scary, you'll fit well
here.

What you'll actually do

• Build AR/VR scenes and
  interactions under direction — take a defined feature or idea and make it
  real in a game engine.
  
• Prototype ways to visualize
  and interact with geospatial data in 3D: terrain, map/imagery layers,
  points of interest, and analytics.
  
• Integrate 3D assets, imagery,
  and data into immersive scenes and get them rendering and behaving
  correctly.
  
• Get hands-on with a headset
  or AR framework — deploy to a device, test it, and iterate on what
  actually feels right in-headset.
  
• Debug across the scene — from
  a broken interaction to a mis-placed object — forming a hypothesis and
  narrowing it down rather than guessing.
  
• Share what you learn: what
  worked, what didn't, and what's worth pursuing further.
   

What you'll learn here

Because an
internship should teach you something real:

• How to build immersive
  experiences on top of real, meaningful data — not toy content.
  
• Spatial and 3D engineering
  the practical way: transforms, coordinate spaces, rendering, and what
  makes an immersive interaction comfortable vs. nauseating.
  
• How geospatial /
  Earth-observation data actually works, and the challenges of representing
  it in 3D.
  
• How to work inside a real
  engineering team and a real codebase — version control, code review, and
  shipping features under direction.
  
• What frontier immersive-tech
  work looks like at a space-tech company.
   

Requirements

What we're looking for

This is a fresher role, so we're screening for potential and what you've
built, not years on the clock:

• Some
  hands-on AR/VR exposure — a class project, game jam, hackathon entry, or personal demo. Portfolio
  over grades: we'd love to actually try what you've made, ideally on a headset.
  
• Comfort in a
  game engine —
  ideally Unity (C#); Unreal (C++) is welcome too.
  
• Solid 3D
  math intuition —
  transforms, coordinate spaces, rotations/quaternions, ray casting. You can
  reason about where things are in space.
  
• Fundamentals
  over framework knowledge — you understand the underlying ideas, so a new SDK or
  engine is something you can pick up, not a wall.
  
• A fast,
  self-driven learner — you can figure things out from docs, samples, and first principles, and
  you don't stall waiting to be told every step.
  
• Systematic
  debugging under uncertainty — when something breaks, you form a hypothesis and
  narrow it down instead of trying random fixes.
  
• You think
  spatially — in
  3D and interactions, not just flat screens and buttons.
  
• Shipped
  something real, end to end — even a small demo you can put on a headset and hand
  to someone.
  
• Curiosity
  about immersive tech and geospatial data — you're genuinely interested in where this is
  heading.
  

Bonus (nice to have)

Any of these are a
plus — we don't expect them from an intern:

• Familiarity with an AR/VR SDK
  or framework: Meta Quest SDK, OpenXR, ARKit/ARCore, or WebXR.
  
• Awareness of performance and
  comfort constraints — frame rate, latency, motion sickness — and why they
  matter in immersive apps.
  
• Any exposure to maps, GIS, or
  geospatial data (Cesium, Mapbox, Leaflet, QGIS, or similar).
  
• Basic 3D asset / content
  skills (Blender, shaders, or working with imported models).
  
• Interest in or exposure to
  satellite imagery or remote sensing.
  
• A shipped or published demo
  (itch.io, an app store, a game jam page, a GitHub repo we can look at).