Engineering Manager, Device Platforms

The role

You will lead the Device SDK and Mobile Engineering teams to develop native SDKs, spatial computing runtimes, and flagship mobile applications. This role involves people management, technical leadership, architecture, and hands-on engineering.

What you will do

• Define and drive the technical vision for the device-native ecosystem.
• Define AI-native development flows and guide the team to embrace agentic development.
• Establish architecture, engineering standards, and development practices.
• Guide platform investments for developer experience, portability, performance, and scalability.
• Partner with Research, Platform, and Product leadership to translate capabilities into products.
• Participate in architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and implementation efforts.
• Contribute production code on a regular basis.
• Review code, mentor engineers, and participate in technical problem solving.
• Support implementation of complex features across mobile applications, SDKs, and runtimes.
• Manage the leads and engineers within the Device SDK and Mobile Engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including building and shipping native applications or SDKs.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing teams and technical leads.
• Expert-level proficiency in native software development for iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin).
• Strong understanding of software architecture, performance optimization, and cross-platform development.
• Experience leading engineers through complex technical initiatives while remaining hands-on.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.
• Great at building and maintaining customer relationships.

Nice to have

• Experience with in-app telemetry capture, analytics, and building business intelligence data streams.
• Experience supporting government or defense customers, including familiarity with FedRAMP, GovCloud, secure deployment environments, compliance documentation, and regulated customer engagements.

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship is required due to security clearance eligibility requirements.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance.

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 turn camera imagery, video, sensor data and archives into accurate, AI-readable representations of real places.