Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Embodied AI

The role

You will own how the product reaches customers and build integrations for simulators and deployment stacks. You will work with research and mapping teams to turn prototypes into production-grade services and design backend systems for data and assets.

What you will do

• Build the Product Surface including APIs, UIs, packages, and documentation
• Turn scans and reconstructions into interoperable assets for customer simulation tools
• Partner with reconstruction, mapping, localization, and research teams to transform prototypes into production-grade services
• Design and operate backend systems for accounts, organizations, sites, scans, assets, and data access
• Work with customers and internal users to integrate technology and improve reliability
• Influence the roadmap alongside the GM, Product leader, and robot learning engineer

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Significant experience building and operating production web applications and backend services
• Strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, testing, observability, and reliability
• Shipped developer-facing products including documentation and reference code
• Worked with 3D asset formats or comparable binary formats to production depth
• Proficient in Python and TypeScript
• Able to take a feature from product requirements through to running it in production
• Experience designing asynchronous workflows, long-running jobs, external integrations, and data-intensive systems

Nice to have

• Experience working with robotics simulators or toolchains such as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, or MuJoCo, or OpenUSD
• Built products for geospatial, 3D, computer vision, graphics, robotics, or spatial computing
• Worked on visualization or asset-management experiences with React, Next.js, or Three.js

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. The team builds a living, measured record of the real world that machines can query and learn from.