About us
Damen Naval offers you a career that is challenging, exciting and fun in equal measure. The Naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group is established in Vlissingen and in Schiedam. It is a company with more than 850 professionals, and a rich tradition of naval shipbuilding, its original roots stem back more than 150 years. For more than 50 years Damen Naval has been the dedicated shipbuilder for the Royal Netherlands Navy. Based on decades of accumulated experience, Damen Naval offers navies worldwide a broad range of defence and security vessels, ranging from 7m to more than 200m in length. Damen Naval is the only supplier of naval vessels in the Netherlands. Damen Naval has delivered more than 420 vessels to satisfied customers all over the world and have has earned a reputation for excellence along the way. While taking pride in heritage, Damen Naval is also looking towards the future. Are you ready for duty?
The role
Damen Naval uses emerging immersive (xR) technologies like Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR) to support the shipbuilding process and the operation of Damen Naval vessels. These technologies are used for sales, concept development, design, production, training, operation, and maintenance. These technologies are, most of the time, connected to other domains including but not limited to education, gamification and serious games, data, and maintenance. A multidisciplinary scrum team uses these technologies to create software applications that run on xR devices like HTC Vive, Oculus Quest and Microsoft HoloLens.
Key accountabilities
As xR-Developer, you will:
- Develop C# code in Unity game engine.
- Maintain and develop productivity tools (Python).
- Maintain and update development environment.
- Design functional and/or conceptual parts of xR products.
- Optimize internal processes and tooling.
Skills & experience
As xR-Developer, you need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree in the field of software development and preferably game development or by experience, possess the same competencies and skills.
- At least three years working experience as a developer in the Unity3D game engine.
- Solid understanding of the C# language and software development (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and design patterns).
- Affinity with the naval maritime industry.
- You have excellent English communication skills in writing and spoken.
- Experience with the development of Virtual Reality applications, Python language, scripting for 3D content creation tools (Blender Python, Maya MEL, etc) and relational databases are considered as a plus.
- Excellent antecedents as a pre-employment security screening and investigation are a part of the recruitment procedure (given the military nature of our projects).
- Permanent EU citizenship and valid EU work visa are both required to be considered as viable candidate.
What we offer
At Damen Naval, we highly value our employees, and we will support your professional and personal development. To that end, we invest in all our employees by offering:
- A technology and innovation focused, dynamic, international work environment.
- A competitive salary package and other benefits.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities within a diverse and rewarding work environment.
- An active social environment in terms of business culture, events & sports.
Other
Are you interested in the position of xR-Developer and do you recognise yourself in the job description? Please respond directly via the Damen Career Portal.
For more information about the vacancy, Damen Naval or the application process, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Career Portal or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)118- 485 000.
Damen Naval does not approve of commercial, contractor and/or agency acquisition or commercial use of this advertisement. Proposing candidates without invitation is not appreciated and will not be considered.