Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Embodied AI
Niantic Spatial15 hours ago
Base Salary
$207k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the product surface for autonomy teams, including APIs, UIs, packages, and documentation.
- Create reliable, interoperable assets from scans and reconstructions for customer simulation tools and workflows, including metadata, semantic labels, object structure, and selectable variants.
- Turn reconstruction, mapping, localization, and research prototypes into production-grade services and user experiences.
- Design and operate backend systems for accounts, organizations, sites, scans, assets, processing jobs, permissions, asynchronous workflows, storage, and data access.
- Work directly with customers and internal users to integrate the technology, diagnose failures, and improve reliability.
- Influence the product roadmap alongside the group GM, product leader, and robot learning engineer.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant experience building and operating production web applications and backend services, including API design, data modeling, testing, observability, and reliability.
- Experience shipping developer-facing products with documentation and reference code used by external engineers.
- Production-depth experience with 3D asset formats or comparable binary formats.
- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript, with the ability to work across frontend and backend and take features from requirements through production.
- Experience designing asynchronous workflows, long-running jobs, external integrations, and data-intensive systems.
- Ability to work credibly with customers and learn unfamiliar tools and technology ecosystems.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $207,000–$265,000, plus annual bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
- Role is based in the San Francisco office with three days per week in the office.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendProduct Engineering
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.