Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Embodied AI
About The Position
Niantic Spatial is building the future of physical AI with proprietary mapping technology that unlocks a new dimension of interaction and spatial intelligence. Their technology captures environments with geometric accuracy and extreme detail, and their Visual Positioning System delivers precise positioning globally. They serve customers in robotics, public sector, and energy/industrial markets. The Embodied AI team is focused on bridging the sim-to-real gap for visual-spatial understanding, applying expertise from Google Maps and Google Earth to build a real-to-sim stack for embodied AI. The Senior/Staff Product Engineer will own the product's customer-facing aspects, build integrations for simulators and deployment stacks, and influence the product roadmap. This role is for an entrepreneurial engineer with a co-founder mentality who is passionate about turning capabilities into successful products and taking ownership of commercial consequences.
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, with strong fundamentals in API design, data modeling, testing, observability, and reliability.
- Shipped developer-facing products — including the documentation and reference code external engineers actually used — and worked with 3D asset formats or comparable binary formats to production depth: you can say what the conventions were, where they broke, and what it cost you.
- Proficient in Python and TypeScript, comfortable working across frontend and backend, and able to take a feature from product requirements through to running it in production.
- Experience designing asynchronous workflows, long-running jobs, external integrations, and data-intensive systems.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with robotics simulators or toolchains such as Isaac Sim, Isaac Lab, or MuJoCo, or OpenUSD.
- Built products for geospatial, 3D, computer vision, graphics, robotics, or spatial computing.
- Worked on visualization or asset-management experiences with React, Next.js, or Three.js.
Responsibilities
- Build the Product Surface - Own how autonomy teams experience our work: the APIs, UIs, packages, and documentation.
- Make Our World Native to the Customer's - Turn scans and reconstructions into reliable, interoperable assets that work in customers' simulation tools and workflows, including packaging, metadata, semantic labels, object structure, and selectable variants.
- Turn Prototypes Into Capability - Partner with reconstruction, mapping, localization, and research teams to transform prototypes and pipeline outputs into production-grade services and user experiences.
- Deliver at Scale - Design and operate backend systems for accounts, organizations, sites, scans, assets, processing jobs, permissions, asynchronous workflows, storage, and data access.
- Make It Work - Work directly with customers and internal users to integrate our technology, diagnose failures, improve reliability, and close the gap between intended and actual product behavior.
- Influence the Roadmap - Work alongside the group's GM, Product leader, and robot learning engineer to shape what we build and when.
Benefits
- medical coverage
- dental coverage
- vision coverage
- 401(k)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
