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Principal Architect, Product Engineering

Niantic Spatial · San Francisco, CA · Remote

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About Niantic Spatial

Niantic Spatial builds real-world foundational models for physical AI, so people and machines can work efficiently and safely together. Backed by Javelin Venture Partners.

About the role

The Principal Architect is the technical steward for the Product Engineering organization. This role will be responsible for ensuring that every product, platform, API, SDK, and service fits together into a cohesive, scalable ecosystem. This is one of the most senior individual contributor roles within Product Engineering.

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At Niantic Spatial, we're building the future of physical AI. Powered by a proprietary database of over 30 billion posed images, our groundbreaking mapping technology unlocks a new dimension of interaction and spatial intelligence that helps both humans and machines better understand, represent, navigate, and engage with the real environment.

Our reconstruction technology captures environments with geometric accuracy and extreme detail from any standard camera, and our Visual Positioning System delivers precise positioning almost anywhere in the world. We serve customers across robotics, the public sector, and energy and industrial markets — building for the 80% of economic activity that takes place beyond our screens.

The Principal Architect is the technical steward for the Product Engineering organization. This role will be responsible for ensuring that every product, platform, API, SDK, and service fits together into a cohesive, scalable ecosystem. This is one of the most senior individual contributor roles within Product Engineering. Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Engineering, you will serve as a technical partner in defining the long-term architecture of Niantic...

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