Software Engineer, AR Research

Join Niantic's Augmented Reality R&D Team as a Software Engineer to push the frontiers of high-quality AR. You'll collaborate with a diverse team focusing on experimental innovation, merging machine learning, computer vision, and AR. At Niantic, we balance the culture of scientific investigation with a product-led focus, developing cutting-edge research that we deploy into our games and platform.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to build software systems and tools to advance R&D.
• Participate in code reviews, write tests, and build automations to ensure the correctness, robustness, and quality of code.
• Work cross-functionally to deliver AR features to the Lightship platform and Niantic games.
• Advocate for best practices in software development and infrastructure with a focus on testability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Work in an agile, communicative, and self-directed manner as part of a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and geographically-dispersed team.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders, including regular attendance and participation in meetings.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Python with working knowledge of Unix and shell scripting.
• Close attention to detail and passion for building high-quality systems and features with rigorous standards of testing.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle dynamic situations with minimal advance notice.
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with effective written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus Skills:

• Proficiency in C++, C# (Unity), or JavaScript.
• Expertise in automation, CI/CD, DevOps, MLOps, and cloud computing tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Argo, Kubeflow).
• Experience designing and running deep learning training systems at scale, including multi-server and multi-GPU training.
• Hands-on experience building efficient data pipelines for large-scale image/video processing.

Location:

• Hybrid role, requiring in-office presence 2 days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday).