2025 Software Engineering Intern, Niantic Labs

• Recently finished or enrolled as a Master’s or PhD student in Computer Science or related field
• You have built your own software systems in Javascript/Typescript, Python or C++, wrangling 2D and/or 3D data
• You are highly curious and don’t shy away from picking up new technologies and learning about new technologies
• Proven understanding of computer science fundamentals with excellent coding, problem solving, and debugging skills

Desirable

• Niantic's Augmented Reality (AR) Mapping Team is seeking interns to work on advancing our real-world AR games and platform. Join us for a 3 or 4 month internship and grow your skills quickly while being mentored by an experienced team of engineers and researchers
• Our technical challenges include data consistency across distributed systems, creating compelling gameplay for a global user base working with geo data at scale, and innovating in augmented reality. Niantic Engineering leads the advancement of spatial computing and immersive technologies while creating engaging apps for a user base in the billions. Come empower players on a game board consisting of the entire world!
• The projects you will work on fit under the broad umbrella of augmented reality, including rendering, machine learning, mapping & relocalization, tracking, and 3D reconstruction. We invite you to explore the best AR problems with us!
• Dig into a fun engineering challenge related to rendering and computer vision
• Build data pipelines and tools using point clouds, meshes and/or gaussian splats
• Participate in the design, development and implementation of software solutions
• Work alongside our engineers and researchers to build and solve problems collaboratively
• Adhere to software engineering best practices and contribute to code reviews
• Build efficient data processing pipelines and tools for visual data
• Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Thursday