Senior Computer Vision Software Engineer

Niantic's Augmented Reality (AR) Mapping team seeks a Senior Computer Vision Software Engineer to help build the 3D world maps that are the foundation for Niantic's real world Metaverse and push the frontiers of Computer Vision and Machine Learning. We are building the VPS and visual maps that help develop AR experiences to "inspire people to explore the world together". We're a highly collaborative and engaging team, working to help algorithms evolve from concept to production at scale, and this is your chance to join us in our journey to map the world.

We are all passionate about innovation, so we're looking for engineers who want to learn and ship products that will be used by millions of developers and users.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain production computer vision systems that are used to improve Niantic's AR capabilities for the delight of our users.
• Collaborate multi-functionally with products, operations and other engineering teams to ship state-of-the art computer vision solutions to enable new AR experiences.
• Optimize complexity and time of solutions to make the best use of current technologies in cloud and/or mobile.
• Design and implement high performant solutions to complex problems that span systems, prioritize tasks effectively, and efficiently to meet agreed timelines.
• Work with Niantic's research team to invent, evaluate and help productionise solutions to push the boundaries of what can be done today in AR.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members and stakeholders, including regular and reliable attendance and participation in meetings.

Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience developing algorithms for image processing, computer vision or similar endeavors.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.
• Experience writing and maintaining production code in C++.

Plus If...

• Experience designing solutions, implementing, hardening or optimizing 3d gaussian splatting, dense depth computation, multi-view reconstruction or other problems in 3D computer vision.
• Experience in planning and leading technical projects from inception to production
• Track record of shipping computer vision algorithms to production