AR/VR Developer Intern

About GalaxEye

• GalaxEye is a
• Space-Tech startup pioneering the world's first OptoSAR Earth Observation
• Satellite, integrating SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and MSI (Multi-Spectral
• Imaging) on a single platform. As we move towards building a constellation of
• indigenous satellites, we are also developing advanced data platforms that fuse
• satellite data, AI analytics, and geospatial intelligence.
• 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.
• This is an
• internship, and we mean it: you'll be prototyping and experimenting, not
• shipping a finished product alone. We care far more about how you think in 3D,
• how fast you learn, and what you've already built than about years of
• experience or a specific tool on your résumé. If you've made even a small VR
• demo or AR filter and want to point it at real Earth-observation data, this is
• a rare place to do 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).