Senior XR Engineer - Rochester

Mayo Clinic • Rochester, MN

5d • $108,202 - $162,406 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior XR Engineer in Mayo Clinic’s Division of Immersive Learning Design invents, designs, optimizes, and analyzes augmented, virtual, and mixed reality solutions for medical education, research, surgical planning, and XR-enabled medical devices. The role integrates digital twins and patient-specific 3D models into XR platforms and creates user-centered immersive experiences that support clinical skills, safety, confidence, and collaboration. Solutions may be deployed across VR, AR, MR, mobile devices, web, and desktop platforms, independent of operating systems and evolving XR hardware.

The engineer serves as a technical lead for division projects and clinical sponsors, providing technical and work direction to project team members and mentoring staff as needed. The position designs system architectures, establishes immersive interaction standards and content-visualization processes, evaluates new technologies and equipment, and develops technical documentation. It also involves maintaining sponsor relationships, identifying new applications, staying current with immersive technology, and communicating and presenting effectively.

The role works across multidisciplinary teams that include healthcare providers, educators, designers, engineers, artists, medical illustrators, animators, surgeons, physicians, radiologists, programmers, and testers. On-site presence is required, with flexibility to work from home during the week once oriented. The employee must live within a 100-mile driving distance of the Rochester Mayo Clinic campus. Visa sponsorship is unavailable, and Mayo Clinic does not participate in the F-1 STEM OPT extension program.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Multimedia Art and Design, Game Design, or a related field and 5 years of professional spatial-computing experience; or a master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Multimedia Art and Design, or a related field and 3 years of professional engineering experience; or a Ph.D. in a related field and 1 year of professional engineering experience.
• Depending on degree, 3–5 or more years of programming in one or more of C#, C++, and Python, using Unreal and Unity engines.
• Experience programming and architecting complex, data-driven systems.
• Experience programming UI and gameplay systems.
• Experience with AR and VR.
• Experience in end-to-end mobile development and the iOS and Android SDKs.
• Experience creating XR experiences or other real-time interactive applications, with a proven understanding of software development lifecycles.
• Proven track record of debugging, performance analysis, and optimization in XR development.
• Familiarity with version control, continuous integration, bug tracking, and code-review systems.
• Experience delivering training or technical talks and writing technical documentation.
• Experience with source control; Git is preferred.
• Excellent object-oriented design and analysis skills.
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English, including strong verbal and documentation skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and willingness to learn medical knowledge and medical infrastructure.
• Must live within a 100-mile driving distance of the Rochester Mayo Clinic campus.
• Must be able to work on site, with flexibility to work from home during the week once oriented to the role.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree (preferred but not required).
• Experience with XR devices such as Quest, Pico, HTC, HoloLens, or Magic Leap.
• Knowledge of software-development methodologies, 3D modeling, computer graphics, and optical tracking.
• Ability to write clean, readable code and debug issues spanning other software development kits.
• Familiarity with anatomy, healthcare industry standards, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal and external teams to design and own systems for medical XR experiences.
• Develop features, workflows, and tools in collaboration with departmental teams.
• Integrate XR into research, education, and clinical areas at Mayo Clinic.
• Prototype and code gameplay, animation, UI, and hardware-integration features.
• Write clean, maintainable, portable, and well-documented code.
• Re-engineer existing code to meet new requirements and implement new technologies.
• Create, debug, maintain, and optimize custom extensions for Unreal Engine and/or Unity.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, 3D artists, medical illustrators, animators, surgeons, physicians, radiologists, programmers, and testers to develop needed features.
• Ensure stability and performance of XR applications.
• Assist with deployment of XR devices and applications to procedural-skills and simulation areas.
• Serve as technical lead for division projects and clinical sponsors, providing technical and work direction to project team members.
• Mentor and coach staff as required.
• Design and develop architectures for industry-related engineering systems using complex principles, theories, concepts, tools, and techniques.
• Demonstrate and define immersive interaction standards and develop processes for visualizing content using immersive technology.
• Stay current with immersive technology trends.
• Develop engineering and technical documentation.
• Develop sponsor relationships and expand or cross-pollinate uses into new applications.
• Lead evaluation of new technologies and capital equipment.
• Communicate and present effectively to team members.
• Invent, analyze, design, and develop VR, MR, and AR computer-vision algorithms related to intraoperative tracking and medical-education paradigms.

Benefits

• Multiple medical plan options.
• Dental coverage through Delta Dental or a reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
• Affordable vision plan with a national network.
• Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible expenses.
• Competitive retirement package.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit plans.
• Continuing education and advancement opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior