niantic-spatial - 3D Reconstruction Research Scientist/Engineer

• Research & Publication — Conduct original research in 3D computer vision, machine learning, and spatial AI; publish findings at top-tier venues including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and SIGGRAPH. • Algorithm Development — Design, implement, and evaluate novel algorithms across 3D reconstruction, neural scene representations, 3D Gaussian Splatting, SfM, meshing, geometric deep learning, feed-forward models, generative models, and spatial foundation models. • Research-to-Production — Collaborate with research scientists and engineers to transition promising ideas into customer-facing products — working directly with real capture conditions, real hardware constraints, and real customers on short turnarounds. • Large-Scale Experimentation — Build and run large-scale experiments and benchmarking frameworks to rigorously validate and advance new methods. • Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration — Partner with world-class researchers in CV, ML, graphics, and robotics to advance large-scale spatial understanding, localization, reconstruction, and geospatial foundation models. • Rapid Prototyping — Implement and iterate on state-of-the-art methods for both academic publishing and production deployment, delivering working prototypes to enterprise customers with speed and quality.