08/27/2026
This position pays between $60 and $88 per hour.
Senior Software Engineer - Unity & HMI Simulation | Contract
This role is expected to:
- Design, develop, maintain, and support Unity-based software applications for vehicle HumanMachine Interface, interactive demonstrations, and driving simulations.
- Work with designers, systems engineers, vehicle/simulation platform teams, and adjacent software teams.
- Unity/C # application development
- High-fidelity 2D/3D cockpit, instrument cluster, situational awareness, navigation, and AD/ADAS visualizations
- Real-time simulation behaviors and scenarios
- Integration with vehicle/simulator/platform software through schemas, APIs, network interfaces, WebSockets, Protobuf, or comparable technologies
- Reusable Unity frameworks, prefabs, asset pipelines, tooling, testing, debugging, deployment, documentation, and release support.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production quality Unity and C # development.
- Strong game engine fundamentals: scenes/assets, prefabs, scripting, event driven systems, rendering, frame rate considerations, and debugging.
- Experience with maintainable software architecture, Git, code review, automated testing, CI, debugging, and release management.
- Ability to work with real time, asynchronous/multithreaded systems and multiple interacting applications or processes.
Preferred:
- Automotive HMI, AD/ADAS, Driver in the loop simulation, serious games, robotics simulation, visualization, interactive 3D applications,
- WebSockets, Protobuf, REST APIs, CAN/LIN/Ethernet/DDS,
- C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Linux/Windows, embedded or real time OS, rendering, shaders, GPU performance, pipelines, mentoring, or technical leadership
Location: Palo Alto, CA; OR Ann Arbor, MI
Applicants should apply via The Mice Groups Inc. website (www.micegroups.com), through this careers site posting, or email [email protected] for this position.
Pay for this position is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. As a contractor you may also be eligible for health benefits such as health, dental, and vision as well as access to a 401K plan.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at The Mice Groups Inc. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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