Staff/Senior Staff Computer Vision Engineer - Map team

The role

You will own and drive Reconstruction and Localization technologies to build a living geospatial world model. You will lead the design of core technologies like Structure from Motion and 3D Reconstruction while mentoring other engineers.

What you will do

• Lead the design and implementation of core technologies like Structure from Motion, Feed Forward, Foundational models, and 3D Reconstruction.
• Invent novel solutions in VPS and 3D Reconstruction through applied research.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable production-grade Computer Vision systems.
• Develop and optimize algorithms and train models for CPU/GPU execution.
• Drive decision-making by creating high quality data for spatial grounding.
• Define the technical roadmap and quarterly objectives with engineering leadership.
• Provide high-level mentorship and code governance.
• Collaborate with Product, Research, and Operations teams.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field (or 4+ years with a PhD in a relevant domain).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or C/C++.
• Proven experience in both classical and learned-based 3D Computer Vision and ML.
• Demonstrated experience in taking research into production at scale.
• Previous experience tech leading computer vision projects.

Nice to have

• Master's or PhD preferred

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• 401(k)
• Comprehensive benefits package

About the company

Niantic Spatial builds spatial AI models and services so people and machines can reason, learn and act safely in the physical world. They build a living, measured record of the real world that machines can query and use to understand how places change over time.