Senior Computer Vision Engineer, Embodied Ai
- Countries
- USA, Hybrid
- Job Types
- software & tech
- Experience
- late
- Organization Types
- startups
- Location
- San Francisco - Hybrid
- Posted Date
- Company
- Niantic Spatial
- Salary
- $229.5K – $255K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
AI Summary
Job Description
As a Senior Computer Vision Engineer, you will productionize computer vision and 3D reconstruction capabilities, turning research into reliable pipeline components. You will ensure end-to-end output quality, make systems robust to real-world complexities, and improve performance and cost-efficiency. You will also build evaluation infrastructure, shape future capabilities, and define interfaces for embodied AI workflows.
Hard Requirements
- Significant experience building and operating production computer-vision, machine-learning, graphics, or data-processing systems.
- Hands-on experience with 3D reconstruction, photogrammetry, structure from motion, SLAM, mapping, scene understanding, computer graphics, or a related field.
- Experience delivering reliable computer-vision or 3D systems used by other teams or customers.
- Practical command of 3D and spatial data, including geometry, camera models, coordinate frames, calibration, and metric scale.
- Strong Python skills, with the ability to work in C++ or other performance-oriented environments.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, GPU workloads, distributed processing, or large-scale data pipelines.
- A bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
Soft Requirements
- Experience with Gaussian splatting, neural rendering, meshing, or related reconstruction methods.
- Built evaluation or benchmarking infrastructure for perception or reconstruction systems.
- Experience with robotics, simulation, or embodied AI applications.
- Experience optimizing large-scale GPU workloads for cost, throughput, or latency.
- Painful sense of urgency.
- Intellectually honest.
- Pragmatic.
- Strong systems instincts.
- Comfort with ambiguity.