Staff Engineer - Robot Learning, Embodied AI
Niantic Spatial6 hours ago
Base Salary
$270k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Inform the product roadmap using customer pain points, existing solutions, and value assessments.
- Own technical requirements and make recommendations about what to build, integrate, and simplify for customer training and evaluation workflows.
- Design and run reproducible evaluations measuring the real-to-sim stack’s impact on policy transfer and real-world performance.
- Lead engineering delivery and personally build and ship critical production features.
- Set a high technical bar and improve the team’s robotics development and deployment practices.
- Work with customers and autonomy engineers to diagnose problems and deliver practical solutions.
Requirements
- Experience training, evaluating, and deploying robot policies in systems used by enterprise or government customers, with responsibility for real-world performance.
- Deep practical experience with simulation for policy training or evaluation, including NVIDIA Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, or equivalent, and experience diagnosing sim-to-real failures.
- Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or both, and deep-learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Understanding of how visual perception and 3D scene representations affect robotics training, evaluation, and deployment.
- Experience running experiments on real robots from hypothesis through defensible results.
- Strong Python and C++ skills and experience building reliable production software.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field.
- Preferred experience authoring or maintaining a public robotics benchmark, taking an early product to repeatable customer adoption, extending robotics simulation infrastructure, deploying vision-based navigation or mobility policies, or building reconstruction-to-simulation pipelines.
Benefits
- Expected base salary is $270,000–$300,000 per year, with annual bonus and equity.
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), and other comprehensive benefits are provided.
- The role is based in the San Francisco office and requires three days per week in the office.
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Niantic Spatial
Niantic Spatial builds computer‑vision and spatial computing software that maps real‑world environments and localizes people and machines within them. The company offers a platform with APIs and SDKs for creating AI‑native digital twins, visual positioning, and spatial question‑answering, serving robotics, AR/VR, defense, and industrial operations. Privately held, it sells its technology to enterprises that need precise, geometrically accurate understanding of physical spaces beyond GPS or screen‑bound systems.