Senior 3D Geospatial Vision Engineer – World Map

Niantic Spatial, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Niantic Spatial is seeking a Research Engineer or Senior Research Engineer to join the World Map Research Engineering team (Geospatial Alignment). This end-to-end applied research role spans from engineering and data-systems work to R&D in 3D deep learning, transformers, and foundation models.

You’ll build algorithms for geospatial registration, 3D geometry, and productionizing capabilities into Niantic Spatial's world model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Photogrammetry, or a closely related field.

Responsibilities

• Geospatial Registration: Develop and advance world-scale georeferencing and registration across imagery, 3D reconstructions, point clouds, and geographic reference data.
• 3D Geometry & Correspondence: Build and improve methods spanning multi-view geometry, SfM, SLAM, feature matching, learned correspondence, bundle adjustment, point-cloud registration, and ICP.
• Data & Evaluation: Create data and evaluation flywheel for world-scale mapping—design and maintain large-scale datasets, pipelines, benchmarks, and evaluation methodologies.
• Learning-Based 3D Reasoning: Explore and develop learning-based approaches for geospatial understanding, combining transformers and 3D foundation models with geometric priors and uncertainty modeling.
• Production Robustness: Design robust solutions for challenging real-world conditions: sparse or noisy GPS, changing appearance, inconsistent reconstruction quality, large geographic extents, and imperfect reference maps.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with researchers in visual localization, 3D computer vision, and mapping with engineering and product teams to productionize research.
• Research Communication: Share results through technical writing, reviews, and internal presentations; contribute to publications and open research where appropriate.

Skills

3D computer vision

Machine learning

Robotics

Photogrammetry

Python

PyTorch

NumPy

SciPy

Education

CS/Robotics/ML/Photogrammetry

Tools

PyTorch

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Niantic Spatial is seeking a Research Engineer or Senior Research Engineer to join the World Map Research Engineering team (Geospatial Alignment). This end-to-end applied research role spans from engineering and data-systems work to R&D in 3D deep learning, transformers, and foundation models.

You’ll build algorithms for geospatial registration, 3D geometry, and productionizing capabilities into Niantic Spatial's world model.