2025 Software Engineering Intern, Niantic

Graphics and Computer Vision

Salary not provided

The pay range for this internship is GBP 6500 to GBP 7500 per month

AWS

TypeScript

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Tensorflow

C++

PyTorch

London

More information about location

2 days a week in office

Augmented reality software development

Be an early applicant

Augmented reality software development

501-1000 employees

B2CGamingAugmented RealitySaaS

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

The pay range for this internship is GBP 6500 to GBP 7500 per month

AWS

TypeScript

GCP

JavaScript

Python

Tensorflow

C++

PyTorch

London

More information about location

2 days a week in office

501-1000 employees

B2CGamingAugmented RealitySaaS

Company mission

Niantic's mission is to shape a future where technology enables novel robotics, computing, and entertainment experiences, focusing predominantly on augmented reality games.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

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

You have experience in computer graphics for the web (WebGL,Three.js)
You have experience writing software for VR/AR HMDs
Previous internship experience
You have made data structures or other design choices to optimize pipeline speed
You have had 1+ papers accepted to CVPR / ICCV / NeurIPS / IROS / ISMAR / SIGGRAPH / CHI type conferences
You have experience designing your own architectures within a deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, or similar)
You have used cloud computing platforms such as GCP or AWS before

What the job involves

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

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Niantic, Inc. is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.

Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.

Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

-14% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.3)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)

Nov 2021

$300m

SERIES D

Dec 2018

$245m

SERIES C

Total funding: $774.3m

Company values

Start with a worthy goal
Invite everyone on board
Lead from the front
Set waypoints, and then stay on course
Speak the truth, to serve the mission
See it through
Weather storms
Summit mountains

Company HQ

Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA

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Leadership

John Hanke

(CEO)

Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.

Phil Keslin

(CTO)

Prior to Niantic, Phil was acontributor to StreetView, GMail and Lively products while at Google. Additionally Phil was a GPU Architect at NVIDIA and a key contributor to the design and development several of their GPUS.

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