Senior Computer Vision Engineer, Embodied AI

Niantic Spatial is building physical AI and spatial intelligence technologies that help humans and machines understand and interact with the real environment. The Senior Computer Vision Engineer will productionize 3D reconstruction and spatial perception capabilities, improve system quality and performance, and collaborate with research, product, engineering, and customer teams to support embodied AI workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Productionize Computer-Vision and 3D Reconstruction Capabilities - Turn research ideas and prototypes into reliable pipeline components and services that can operate across varied customer data and environments
• Own End-to-End Output Quality - Ensure that reconstructed environments and spatial artifacts are geometrically coherent, correctly scaled and aligned, and usable by downstream simulation and embodied AI systems
• Make Systems Robust to the Real World - Diagnose failures caused by capture quality, scene complexity, scale, calibration, coordinate conventions, and other assumptions that prototypes often leave implicit
• Improve Performance, Throughput, and Cost - Profile and optimize GPU and distributed workloads, reduce unnecessary reruns, and help establish the economics of running reconstruction at scale
• Build Evaluation and Quality Infrastructure - Create datasets, regression tests, quality gates, and benchmarking tools that help the team measure whether changes improve the system
• Shape the Next Generation of Capabilities - Bring production and customer constraints into research planning, helping prioritize the advances that matter most for embodied AI
• Work Across the Product Boundary - Partner with Embodied AI product and engineering teams to understand customer requirements and deliver capabilities that fit real training, evaluation, and deployment workflows
• Define the Interfaces to Embodied AI Workflows - Help evolve the representations, tooling, and operational systems that allow reconstructed environments to move reliably into customer applications